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Eritrea: W(h)ither the Jihad?
Author(s) -
Pateman Roy
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
journal of contingencies and crisis management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.007
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1468-5973
pISSN - 0966-0879
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-5973.1995.tb00103.x
Subject(s) - politics , government (linguistics) , political science , disadvantaged , political economy , french horn , law , sociology , philosophy , linguistics , pedagogy
Eritrea and Sudan, two neighbours in the Horn of Africa, have broken off diplomatic relations and war between the former friends is not impossible. Handling the crisis caused through Sudanese sponsorship of a fundamentalist group, Eritrea Jihad, that seeks to overthrow the secular government of Eritrea is the first major test of the diplomatic and political skills of Africa's newest nation. Resolution of the crisis is likely to involve Eritrean measures to improve the lot of its disadvantaged Muslims and Sudan reining in the Jihad forces — leading to dissension within the government and unpredictable shifts in Sudaneses politics.