- Vol 40 No 22
- 5th November 1999
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 'aggression ...
- Vol 40 No 9
- 30th April 1999
UN envoy Mohammed Sahnoun mediates while the world ignores its biggest war
- Vol 40 No 4
- 19th February 1999
Both sides seem to be keen to fight to the death in one of the least
explicable wars
- Vol 40 No 4
- 19th February 1999
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 pro...
- Vol 40 No 1
- 8th January 1999
The moratorium on air attacks agreed after June’s raids on Asmara and Makelle (and after phone calls by President Bill Clinton to Premier Meles Zenawi and President Issayas Afewerki) still holds. Nevertheless, deliveries last month greatly increased both ...
- Vol 39 No 21
- 23rd October 1998
OAU negotiators are desperate to secure peace before the rains end
- Vol 39 No 19
- 25th September 1998
As the rains end and hardliners in Addis Ababa and Asmara threaten renewed fighting senior figures in both governments have privately been sending out peace signals. The differences between the two sides are small, on paper at least. On the ground, they a...
- Vol 39 No 18
- 11th September 1998
In diplomacy and the shooting war, both Eritrea and Ethiopia are confident of victory
- Vol 39 No 18
- 11th September 1998
With the guns mostly silent along the border, the war is being waged through local media. In Addis Ababa, ETV daily broadcasts rallies country-wide supporting the war, parading mothers and wives of soldiers before the cameras to declare their commitment t...
- Vol 39 No 17
- 28th August 1998
Ethiopia has been trying for some time to refurbish and upgrade the MiGs it inherited from Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam’s regime. The planes were properly ‘mothballed’ after Meles Zenawi took over and have been well looked after. For two years, discussio...