- 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 18
- 11th September 1998
Last year’s abortive talks between the Ethiopian government and the Oromo Liberation Front precipitated changes in the OLF leadership. In April an extraordinary National Congress, held in Mogadishu, elected a new nine-man Executive Committee, replacing th...
- 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...
- Vol 39 No 16
- 7th August 1998
The Organisation of African Unity was working ‘flat-out to avert a full-scale war’, said Secretary General Salim Ahmed Salim at last weekend’s peace summit in Ouagadougou. Yet renewed skirmishes were reported from Zelambessa and both Eritrea and Ethiopia ...