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One of the many refugee camps in arid Somalia. Renewed
border clashes and drought have combined to swell
already overcrowded refugee camps with
nearly 700,000 Ethiopians and ethnic Somalis.
by 16,000 Cuban troops and Soviet advisers, drove the
Somalis back across the border.
The results of this war and the continuing civil strife
in Ethiopia have caused one of the most severe refugee
problems in the world. Nearly 700,000 people have
been displaced.
To make matters worse, in July, 1982, fighting again
broke out as Ethiopians backing the revolutionary
Somali Democratic Salvation Front (SSDF) crossed into
Somalia.
The bitter infigbting and hatreds dating back to the
1500s have now made the nations of the Horn of Africa
especially vulnerable to outside political pressure.
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Comlng lntervention
Instabi lity makes this region not only an inviting tar–
get for pressure by the two superpowers, but also a
concern for those other nations whose vital interests
are at s take. The Bible, in fact, prophesies a coming
intervention in this region by a powerful military
power to the north of Africa.
Mussolini's Italy nearly a half century ago avenged
a military defeat banded to ltalian forces by tbe ..king
of the south" (the emperor Menelik of Ethiopia) in
1897. Fascist armies overran the Ethiopian empire of
Haile Selassie in 1935 as prophesied in Daniel 11:40.
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