{"id":3003,"date":"2010-07-13T11:08:51","date_gmt":"2010-07-13T10:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=3003"},"modified":"2010-07-13T11:08:51","modified_gmt":"2010-07-13T10:08:51","slug":"forgotten-world-212-eritrea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=3003","title":{"rendered":"Forgotten World (212): Eritrea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A former Italian colony, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eritrea\">Eritrea<\/a> was occupied by the British in 1941.  In 1952 the United Nations resolved to establish it as an autonomous  entity federated with Ethiopia. However, 10  years later the Ethiopian emperor, Haile Selassie, decided to annex it,  triggering a 32-year armed struggle.<\/p>\n<p>This culminated in independence after an alliance of the Eritrean  People&#8217;s Liberation Front (EPLF) and a coalition of Ethiopian resistance  movements defeated Haile Selassie&#8217;s communist successor, Mengistu Haile  Mariam.<\/p>\n<p>In 1993, in a referendum supported by Ethiopia,  Eritreans voted almost unanimously for independence, leaving Ethiopia  a landlocked nation. Eritrea emerged from its long war of independence only to  plunge once again into military conflict, first with Yemen and then,  more devastatingly, with its old adversary, Ethiopia.<\/p>\n<p>Today,  a fragile peace prevails in the country of almost 6 million and Eritrea faces the gigantic tasks of  rebuilding its infrastructure and of developing its economy after more  than 30 years of fighting<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former Italian colony, Eritrea was occupied by the British in 1941. In 1952 the United Nations resolved to establish it as an autonomous entity federated with Ethiopia. However, 10 years later the Ethiopian emperor, Haile Selassie, decided to annex it, triggering a 32-year armed struggle. This culminated in independence after an alliance of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3003"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3092,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3003\/revisions\/3092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}