The Gambela People's Democratic Unity Party was a

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. GPDUP was mainly based amongst

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, formed in 1992 in

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in the midst of mass displacements of Nuers as the Anuak-dominated

Gambela People's Liberation Movement The Gambela People's Liberation Movement (Abbreviation, abbreviated GPLM) was a rebel group in the Gambela Region in Ethiopia. The GPLM was founded by Anuak people, Anuak dissidents during the Derg, Derg regime. The organization remained dominate ...

had taken control over Gambela in 1991. GPLM and GPDUP struggled violently against each other for most of the 1990s, until the Addis Ababa government intervened and forced the merger of the two parties into the

Gambela People's Democratic Front Gambela or Gambella may refer to: Places * Gambela Region, Ethiopia * Gambela, Ethiopia, a city and separate woreda in Gambela Region * Gambela Zuria, ''Greater Gambela'', a woreda surrounding the city of Gambela * Gambela National Park * Apostolic ...

in 1998.

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