By Camille Pecastaing
ISBN-10: 0817913742
ISBN-13: 9780817913748
Camille Pecastaing appears to be like on the twenty-first-century demanding situations dealing with the quarter round the Bab el Mandeb-the tiny strait that separates the crimson Sea from the Indian Ocean-from civil struggle, piracy, radical Islamism, terrorism and the genuine hazard of environmental and financial failure on each side of the strait. the writer takes us with him into Somalia and Yemen, Eritrea and Djibouti, with tours into Ethiopia and the Sudan, as he unearths how the industrial and environmental obstacle presently in gestation may lead to extra social dislocation and violence during this strategically vital sector.
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Patronage and the enduring strength of the tribal structure in the north helped stabilize the regime after 1970. The question of leadership was settled when Ali Abdullah Saleh, an officer with limited education but decent connections and exceptional skills at manipulation, became president of the republic in 1978, following the murders in quick succession of two of his predecessors. Saleh would keep the flirtation with the Soviet Union in the 1980s with a treaty of friendship. However, keen to retain Saudi aid, he kept the northern republic on a nonaligned course.
Revenue in the 1970s came mostly from import taxes and foreign aid: it was not much to go by, but social expectations were not high. In 1975, the population in the north was under 5 million, with more than half under the age of 16 and with almost 100% female illiteracy. Patronage and the enduring strength of the tribal structure in the north helped stabilize the regime after 1970. The question of leadership was settled when Ali Abdullah Saleh, an officer with limited education but decent connections and exceptional skills at manipulation, became president of the republic in 1978, following the murders in quick succession of two of his predecessors.
By March 1978, the Somali Army was forced to withdraw to its side of the border. The Ogaden War was over, its end the beginning of the end of the Somali state. With Addis Ababa now anchored in the Warsaw Pact, Saudi Arabia brokered an arrangement for the provision of American military assistance to Barre. The whole region, one of the world’s poorest, was awash with small arms and coming ablaze. Insurgencies in Eritrea, the Ogaden, south Sudan, and Oman were proxies in the great East-West engagement, each superpower concerned about conceding a geostrategic advantage.
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