Comments on Africa-related article [Archives:2004/748/Letters to the Editor]

Wossen Gabriel
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The meticulous research you recently published in Yemen Times shows that the people of Horn of Africa, or the Red Sea region, had strong and long historical ties and flourishing civilizations. Today's war-torn and poverty-ridden nations had their glorious past, and I only wish they would work toward a harmonious and glorious future.
If there is one drawback to the paper, it is why the historian wanted to refer to Ethiopia by its ancient name – Abyssinia – while lining up nine-year-old Eritrea, a province that had been an integral part of Ethiopia since the days of Emperor Ezana of the 4th century AD, along with ancient countries Egypt, Yemen, and of course, Ethiopia.
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