Assab ['æsәb]
阿萨布[埃塞俄比亚北部港市]
- In an unprecedented report on the civil war in the north, the Ethiopian News Agency reported Friday that the rebels launched attack on the port of Assab at midnight Tuesday from a boat at nearby Senabor Island.
- The port, 400 miles northeast of the capital, is crucial to delivery of relief supplies for many of Ethiopia's estimated 7.3 million drought victims. Assab also handles most of the country's imports and exports and is the site of an oil refinery.
- The report of the Assab attack is the first of its kind since President Mengistu Haile Mariam ended years of official silence March 30 about the two insurgencies in the northernmost neighboring provinces of Eritrea and Tigre.
- It's 625-mile Red Sea coastline includes the ports of Assab and Massawa.
- Assab and Massawa, Ethiopia's only other port of significance, are both in Eritrea, where the secessionist Eritrean People's Liberation Front has been fighting for 27 years in Africa's oldest civil war.
您正在访问的是
中国词汇量第二的英语词典
更多精彩,登录后发现......