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Ethiopia; Eritrea

Berhanu Nega (in baseball cap), with other opposition leaders, speaking to reporters in Addis Ababa in 2005 after elections won by his party were annulled by the regime.

A tenured US professor is leading an Ethiopian rebel group

Conflict

Berhanu Nega, on leave from Bucknell University, is trying to overthrow the government of his native Ethiopia.

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