Ethiopia 1996
Yearbook 1996 Ethiopia. Ethiopia fought border battles with Islamist guerrillas from Somalia in the middle of the year. The guerrillas have recruited Ethiopians in the province of Ogaden in the…
Yearbook 1996 Ethiopia. Ethiopia fought border battles with Islamist guerrillas from Somalia in the middle of the year. The guerrillas have recruited Ethiopians in the province of Ogaden in the…
Yearbook 1996 Swaziland. On July 26, the country’s king, Mswati III, appointed Sibusiso Barnabas Dlamini as prime minister. Dlamini, previously a senior official of the International Monetary Fund, had been…
Yearbook 1996 Estonia. At the beginning of 1996, one of the first major investors in Estonia, Svenska Tobaks AB, moved its manufacturing to Sweden after the Estonian government refused to…
Yearbook 1996 Eritrea. Eritrea’s conflict with Yemen over which of the countries entitled to the strategically important Hani Islands in the Red Sea continued since fighting between the countries occurred…
Yearbook 1996 Equatorial Guinea. President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, who has ruled the country since 1979 when he took power through a military coup, won the presidential election in February.…
Yearbook 1996 El Salvador. The leader of the Alianza Republicana Nacionalista (ARENA) government party, Juan José Domenech, resigned from his post in September when he was accused of being involved…
Yearbook 1996 Egypt. The government and the security forces had apparently begun to overcome the Islamist acts of violence in recent years when violence again erupted, especially in the province…
Yearbook 1996 Ecuador. In January, President Sixto Durán Ballén declared the country in a state of mobilization and summoned troops to secure law and order in the face of the…
1991 Santa Cruz Massacre On November 12, 1991, a young murdered student was buried in the cemetery in Dili. As the procession entered the cemetery, the army opened fire with…
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