It becomes a means for them to rally the troops against the evil bogeymen in Eritrea.
Never far off the breadline at the best of times, Eritrea will need substantial food aid.
The results mean Zanzibar, Rwanda, Tanzania, Burundi, Uganda and Eritrea have all booked their quarter-finals places.
In Friday's other game Eritrea will face Uganda to decide who tops Group B.
The scheme is being extended to a further 22 countries, including Cambodia, Mongolia and Eritrea.
Burundi will be waiting for Sudan in Wednesday's semi final, after they swept aside Eritrea 2-1.
Parts of Ethiopia are plagued by rebel insurgencies, and the country is at war with Eritrea.
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Yet he cannot stomach a jihadist state across his border, backed by his enemy, Eritrea.
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The Horn of Africa includes the states of Eritrea, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan and Kenya.
But an Ethiopian offensive in Somalia could result in Eritrea taking its chance to attack Ethiopia.
The clash happened on 17 January in the Afar region near the border with Eritrea.
Eritrea claimed to have killed or wounded 25, 000 Ethiopians in the first three days of fighting.
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So far 4, 500 people have registered to return to Eritrea, a committee member says.
In a fierce resurgence of their war, Ethiopian forces launched an offensive into Eritrea .
When he arrived in Ethiopia, he discovered that his Eritrean mother had been deported to Eritrea.
During the war, an estimated total of 125, 000 people were deported from Ethiopia and Eritrea.
Eritrea also fights a proxy war against Ethiopia in Somalia and in Ethiopia's rebellious Ogaden region.
Women account for less than 30% of new recruits in countries like Eritrea and Mali.
Eritrea, too, is convinced that Sudan supports its rebels as part of its Islamist agenda.
Eritrea has received a batch of MiG-29 fighters, possibly from Ukraine, and quantities of small arms.
Eritrea's detractors say it has become a pariah in the mould of North Korea.
Eritrea and Ethiopia, which once helped the rebellion, are too busy fighting each other.
This happened, but Eritrea's secession left Ethiopia landlocked, dependent on Eritrean goodwill for its trade.
The children from the Carriageworks Theatre Academy met refugee Amna Idris who left Eritrea due to persecution.
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Ultimately, I took my love and tested it by moving to Eritrea to work for two years.
Eritrea may have international law on its side, but no global policeman seems inclined to enforce it.
Tens of thousands of Eritreans, many of whom had never set foot in Eritrea, have been deported.
Mr. FLETCHER: It was a reckless, reckless move by the Bush administration, describing Eritrea as potentially sponsoring terrorism.
But the head of Eritrea's delegation, a country where only 28 elephants remain, was of the opposite opinion.
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