Ethiopia's Involvement in the Sudanese Civil War: Was it as Significant as Khartoum Claimed?

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Title:	Ethiopia's Involvement in the Sudanese Civil War: Was it as Significant as Khartoum Claimed?
Author:	Ronen, Yehudit
Year:	2002
Periodical:	Northeast African Studies
Volume:	9
Issue:	1
Pages:	103-126
Language:	English
Geographic terms:	Sudan Ethiopia
Subjects:	military intervention civil wars 1980-1989 1990-1999 History and Exploration Military, Defense and Arms Inter-African Relations Politics and Government
External link:	http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/northeast_african_studies/v009/9.1ronen.pdf
Abstract:	This article examines Ethiopian political and military interference in Sudan's civil war from 1983 to 1999. The principal question is to what degree, if at all, Sudanese governments magnified Ethiopian intervention in the war and thus manipulated official media in order to influence Sudanese and foreign opinion. The article presents the discussion mainly through the viewpoint of Khartoum's four different governments - the eras of Ja'far Muhammad al-Numayri (1983-1985), 'Abd al-Rahman Muhammad Siwar al-Dahab (1985-1986), al-Sadiq al-Mahdi (1986-1989), and 'Umar Hasan Ahmad al-Bashir (1989-1999). The article concludes that Addis Ababa under the regimes of both Haile Mariam Mengistu and Meles Zenawi exerted a major influence on the war in Sudan, providing the rebel Sudanese People's Liberation Army SPLA with vital support. Notes, ref. [ASC Leiden abstract]