The Eritrean People's Liberation Front, colloquially known as Shabia, was an Eritrean separatist Marxist–Leninist national liberation coalition, and later, organization and movement that fought and su
EPLF fighter.
EPLF fights with Ethiopian forces.
EPLF's women fighters.
Destroyed Ethiopian tanks after battle of Afabet, where EPLF won, 1988.
Isaias Afwerki
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Isaias Afwerki is an Eritrean politician and dictator who has served as the president of Eritrea since its independence in 1993 and the chairman of the People's Front for Democracy and Justice since 1
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…and Justice (PFDJ), which remains the sole legal party in Eritrea. In 1967, thirty-three men underwent six months of training in China, including Isaias Afwerki, an engineering student who had left Haile Selassie I University (Addis Ababa University) in 1966 to join the Eritrean Liberation Front (ELF), and…
Isaias in 2024
President Isaias with U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, December 2002
The Bank of Eritrea in 2005
Voice of America's Peter Clottey interviews Isaias in New York, 2011