Major conflict1988

Battle of Afabet

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Afabet

Estimated casualties

Casualty figures unrecorded for this conflict.

EPLF's destruction of three Ethiopian divisions at Afabet, called by Basil Davidson the largest victory by African guerrillas since Dien Bien Phu.

Belligerents2

Eritrean People's Liberation Front
Ethiopia (Derg)

Sources

Wikipedia — text reused under CC BY-SA 4.0

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Cite as: Battle of Afabet (1988). War Atlas. https://waratlas.org/c/battle-of-afabet · Sources & methodology