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One of the first postwar surprises in Eritrea probably shouldn’t have surprised anyone. Shortly after the shooting stopped in May 1991, men in many villages and towns formed secret committees to try to block women from participating in peacetime distributions of land.
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Connell, D. (2010). Strategies for Change: Women and Politics in Eritrea and South Africa. In: Turshen, M. (eds) African Women. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230114326_10
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