Further setback
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in The forces of the Ethiopian military dictatorship and its allies are now preparing an assault on the town of Keren in western Having raised the siege of Asmara, and with the fall of Agordat, recapturing the lasttown held by the Eritrean Liberation Front, the Derg's armies have been freed to throw their forces against the resistance of the Eritrean Popular Liberation Keren-which was liberated by the EPLF in last year's advances-is strategically crucial to the control of the west of Eritrea, and the battle will be a critical test of the EPLF's ability to withstand the onslaught of the Ethiopian troops with their Russian equipment and Soviet support.
But with every day of the war in Eritrea, the Derg's domestic crisis intensifies. The chaos of Ethiopian society has now been increased by the invasion of a huge swarm of locusts.
Mengistu's regime is now fighting , a desperate battle against time on every front.
While the continuing liberation struggles in Eritrea give an impetus to revolutionary forces within Ethiopia, so this internal crisis restrains the dictatorship from turning all its strength to crush the EPLF and the Eritrean people.