As promised, both countries have accepted the (carefully crafted) ruling by the Eritrea-Ethiopian Boundary Commission, published last weekend. Both sides want peace but the propaganda war still rages and normal relations look distant. Both claim victory b...
Is southern Sudan, already burdened with enough problems of its own, becoming enmeshed in another proxy war on its border with Ethiopia? Such fears follow the arrival in eastern Sudan of some 400 armed Ethiopian dissidents loyal to the ex-Governor of Gamb...
Power is shifting from party to Premier – and maybe, to the people
Ethiopia's security chief, Kinfe Gebre Medhin, was shot four times in the back outside the Armed Forces Officers Club in Addis Ababa on 12 May. The murder hits Prime Minister Meles Zenawi personally and politically. Since 1991 Kinfe's title had been Gener...
A split in the dominant party may be good for national unity
It's been a tough few weeks for Prime Minister Meles Zenawi. Eritrean intransigence over the United Nations' Temporary Security Zone between the two armies has delayed implementation of the Algiers peace agreement. Meles's critics in the Central Committee...
Ethiopia, like Eritrea, is conducting a post-war reassessment (gim-gema), covering the decade since the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) took power. When it is complete, Prime Minister Meles Zenawi is expected to score an overwhel...
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
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