ABSTRACT
In Eritrea, Italian rule came to an end with the British invasion in 1941, and the country remained under British administration until 1952. Idris Mohammed Adam, a former president of the Eritrean Assembly, who was in the process of forming the Eritrean Liberation Front, launched a campaign of denounciation, claiming that the Eritrean Liberation Movement. The nationalist revolution in Eritrea is Africa's longest conflict, and one whose nature is often misunderstood by friend and foe alike. Opposition to union with Ethiopia and support for Eritrean independence came initially from the Muslim community. Dominant in the Red Sea ports, it had a stranglehold on trade with the Eritrean plateau and Ethiopia, a fact that did not endear its members to the Christians who ruled there. The launching of the movement was a Muslim initiative, and it preceded the abrogation of the Federation and the official annexation of Eritrea in 1962.
