President Issayas is freezing some of his key officials out of politics
Suspicion and mutual recriminations persist but a peace treaty is to be signed on 12 December.
The agreement signed on 18 June in Algiers has little to recommend it to Eritrea. Only after a comprehensive peace agreement - still some way off - is the Eritrean-Ethiopian border to be demarcated, according to 'colonial treaties' and international law. ...
Ethiopia simplifies the military situation but complicates
the political game
The OAU peace deal between Asmara and Addis Ababa is hanging
by a thread as both sides rearm and turn up the war rhetoric
Badme, taken by Eritrea in May 1998, has this year been the
focus of several deadly battles. In February, Ethiopia attacked
with artillery, then aircraft and tanks, then human-wave assaults.
After four days and heavy losses, Ethiopia broke the Eritrean...
Ethiopia is angry at what it sees as the international failure
to condemn Eritrean aggression. When receiving the new United
States' Ambassador to Ethiopia, Tibor Nagy, in early
October, Ethiopian President Negasso Gidada pointedly noted
that 'aggress...
UN envoy Mohammed Sahnoun mediates while the world ignores its biggest war
Both sides seem to be keen to fight to the death in one of the least
explicable wars
Each side hopes to support the other’s dissidents - even when
this means helping Khartoum’s National Islamic Front
government, its Islamist protégés and its own
enemies’ enemies. Eritrea recently added an Oromo-language
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