In addition to buying weapons (in defiance of UN sanction) from North Korea, Ethiopia has also decided that starving rebel regions is appropriate behavior: The Ethiopian government is blockading emergency food aid and choking off trade to large swaths of a remote region in the eastern part of the country that is home to a […]
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In the late thirteenth century, the son of the slave of an Abyssinian cheiftain deposed the last king of the Zagwe dynasty and married the king’s daughter. Yekuno Amlak claimed to be the sole ma
Peter Howard has a sober appraisal of the the North Korean weapons-to-Ethiopia deal: The Administration has identified both counter-terrorism and counter-proliferation as vital national security inter
Hey, remember that time we sold some weapons to terrorist Iran and gave the money to some terrorists in Nicaragua, all the while claiming that we’d never negotiate with terrorist? That was super, wasn’t it? Three months after the United States successfully pressed the United Nations to impose strict sanctions on North Korea because of […]