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TO GO WITH STORY TITLED ERITREA PRIDE-- Eritrean Muslims , who make up about 50 percent of the population in the small country in the Horn of Africa, kneel on the dusty ground as they pray beside the road, near the town of Afabet, 110 kms (68 miles) north of the capital, Asmara, July 8, 2000. During much of Eritrea's 30 year struggle for independence, the Eritrean insurgents were forced to live in underground bunkers dug deep into the sides of rugged mountains. Muslims and Christians, men and women, intellectuals and peasants fought, lived and died side by side, forging national unity and its accompanying heroic aura. (AP Photo/Boris Grdanoski)