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Massawa

[mә'sɑ:wә,mɑ:s'sɑ:wɑ:]
马萨瓦[埃塞俄比亚北部港市]

massawa

[ noun ]
a port town in Eritrea on an inlet of the Red Sea
<noun.location>

The government said the Eritrean rebels' main objective appeared to be the capture of Massawa, the largest of only two ports on Ethiopia's Red Sea coast.
The United Nations hoped to ship 1.1 million tons of emergency food through Massawa in the next few months to feed an estimated 4 million people, mainly in Eritrea and Tigre.
It had come upon another Polish ship _ Boleslaw Krzywousty _ stranded and ablaze 50 miles from Massawa on the Eritrean coast.
Reporters who visited Massawa in late April could hear the thunder of artillery and tank barrages day and night at the front 40 miles away.
The primary corridor sought is a road extending sought from the Red Sea port of Massawa, which is controlled by the Mengistu government, into Tigray.
The rebels claim they killed, wounded or captured 30,000 Ethiopian soldiers when they took Massawa in a three-day battle in early February and have inflicted similar casualties along the Ghinda front.
In February, after their largest offensive ever, they captured the Red Sea port of Massawa and cut all ground routes to Asmara from the capital, Addis Ababa.
The rebels captured Massawa, one of only two Ethiopian ports on the Red Sea, on Feb. 11, three days after launching a massive new offensive in the country's northernmost province.
Massawa is a key staging point for emergency food donated through the United Nations for an estimated 4 million people facing famine in northern Ethiopia this year.
Ethiopian warplanes dropped cluster bombs on the guerrilla-held Red Sea port of Massawa, killing 50 civilians and wounding 110, the rebels said Monday.
Government troops and secessionist rebels battled for a fourth day Sunday for Ethiopia's vital Red Sea port of Massawa, state radio said.
EDITOR'S NOTE: The writer was in Massawa when it was last bombed by the Ethiopian air force.
I don't think it's part of any organized conspiracy." Ethiopian Air Force jets killed 46 and wounded 82 in raids on the Red Sea port of Massawa and the northern town of Afabet, Eritrean rebels said Thursday.
The United Nations had hoped to ship most of 1.1 million tons of donor food through Massawa to feed drought victims in Eritrea and neighboring Tigre, Wollo and Gondor provinces.
Meanwhile, shipping sources in Copenhagen, Denmark, said Wednesday the Eritrean rebels seized the ship Svea Atlantic 27 nautical miles north of Massawa.
The rebels said "fierce" fighting was continuing in a separate attack they launched Sunday east of Karan, 55 miles west of Massawa.
The Ghinda front straddles the only road from Asmara to Massawa, a two-lane ribbon of asphalt stretching 62 miles.
The accusation echoed a statement earlier this week by Andrew Natsios, an American disaster assistance official, who said the rebels had closed Massawa port to a food-laden Danish freighter flying the U.N. flag.
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.
Another possible complication arose last week when the Eritrean People's Liberation Front declared the Red Sea port of Massawa, where supplies would arrive, a war zone.
The rebels previously reported aerial attacks on Massawa and the town of Afabet on Tuesday and Wednesday.
President Mengistu Haile Mariam pledged a "fight to the bitter end" to defend the northern Red Sea port of Massawa now under attack by Eritrean rebels.
The United Nations had planned to ship most of the food through the Red Sea port of Massawa, but it was closed last month by renewed fighting between the government and the secessionist Eritrean People's Liberation Front.
The port of Massawa, once closed to international food deliveries, has opened, permitting easier access to segments of the population that once lay out of reach.
Journalists who have seen the remains of Massawa, been guided near the front by the rebels and talked with deserters from Mengistu's army believe the numbers are not greatly exaggerated.
He said about 50,000 tons of food is currently stored in Massawa awaiting distribution.
They captured the Red Sea port of Massawa on Feb. 8 and cut off all but air access to Asmara.

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