The World - News from Aug. 5, 1988

Ethiopia said its forces have captured a strategic rebel stronghold in mountainous northern Tigre province after fierce fighting. “The area was a fortress of the bandits who had also consolidated their positions in strategic positions in the surrounding areas,” the state-owned Ethiopian News Agency reported. The term “bandit” is used by the government to describe rebels of the Tigre People’s Liberation Front and the secessionist Eritrean People’s Liberation Front, whose forces have been fighting the government in the northernmost province of Eritrea for more than two decades.