Giday Gebrekidan
Polarized Background
In May 1991 the Derg regime collapsed and the Eritrean People’s Liberation Front (EPLF) took over Eritrea and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) with its new coalition of national fronts, the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), took over Ethiopia. The Eritrean problem was solved by formally accepting Eritrean independence in 1993. What remained was finding solutions to the rest of Ethiopia’s problems short of granting independence to the other nationalities.
