- Vol 41 No 24
- 8th December 2000
Suspicion and mutual recriminations persist but a peace treaty is to be signed on 12 December.
- Vol 41 No 13
- 23rd June 2000
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. ...
- Vol 41 No 11
- 26th May 2000
Ethiopia simplifies the military situation but complicates
the political game
- Vol 41 No 8
- 14th April 2000
The tragic return of famine may just help efforts to end the
war with Eritrea
- Vol 41 No 7
- 31st March 2000
The ruling party exploits popular pro-war sentiment in its election campaign
- Vol 41 No 7
- 31st March 2000
The All Amhara People's Organisation, which claims to be a national party, cannot campaign without local offices. Nearly two years ago, it formally asked Premier Meles Zenawi for leave to reopen 14 offices, closed in 1993-94. Last year, the National Elect...
- Vol 40 No 22
- 5th November 1999
The OAU peace deal between Asmara and Addis Ababa is hanging
by a thread as both sides rearm and turn up the war rhetoric
- Vol 40 No 22
- 5th November 1999
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 de...
- 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