By Dominic Odipo
In 1962, only one year before Kenya formally annexed the ten-mile Coastal Strip, Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia unilaterally dissolved the parliament of Eritrea and formally turned that region into just another of Ethiopia’s provinces.
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