The United Nations has given up, the parties will not talk
and the troops are face to face
The border battle at the mouth of the Red Sea looks more like Eritrean aggression
Eritrea sent its troops into Djibouti, a small country with
powerful allies
The UN is casting around for big ideas to end the dangerous stalemate of the future of the border - but none have emerged yet
The quarrel between Addis Ababa and Asmara
over their common border and the political chaos in Somalia
is intensifying. The heat turned up after the Ethiopia Eritrea
Boundary Commission announced on 7 September that it would demarcate
the border by t...
Eritrea and Ethiopia, whose leaders detest each other, are clashing on three regional issues. Moreover, hawks in Addis believe – rightly or wrongly – that Ethiopia's support for the 'War on Terror' will shield it from any pressure from the United States' ...
With Somalia looking more settled, Ethiopia has
been looking towards Eritrea, which it sees as the regional
spoiler. On 8 June, Addis Ababa wrote to the United Nations Security
Council President calling for Chapter VII sanctions against Eritrea,
in or...
Eritrea now condemns foreign involvement in Somalia.
Last year, it sent large quantities of arms and fighters, and
a training mission, to the Islamic Courts Union (ICU), then in
power. In January, President Issayas Afeworki sent a minister
to Nairobi ...
The latest meeting of the Eritrea-Ethiopia Boundary Commission, in London on 17 May, started badly, with the Commission President, Sir Elihu Lauterpacht QC of Britain, irritated by news reports suggesting the process was now led by the United States. Ethi...
Secret talks in London on 10 March between American
lawyers may help unblock the border dispute between Eritrea and
Ethiopia, that killed 50-100,000 people in 1998-2000. Both governments were coaxed into joining talks with the
Eritrea-Ethiopia Boundary...
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