Vol 42 No 14 | ERITREA Crimes against the state 13th July 2001 The President still claims he won the war as his regime wobbles around him The ruling People's Front for Democracy and Justice is now deeply split. At the end of May, 15 leading members of the PFDJ's 75-member Central Council published an unprecedented op...
Vol 42 No 4 | ERITREA Winter in Asmara 23rd February 2001 President Issayas is freezing some of his key officials out of politics For the first time in his political life, President Issayas Aferworki faces serious challenges from his political peers. There is now a substantial group within the ruling People's...
Vol 41 No 24 | ERITREAETHIOPIA Peace at last 8th December 2000 Suspicion and mutual recriminations persist but a peace treaty is to be signed on 12 December.
Vol 41 No 13 | ERITREAETHIOPIA Time of reckoning 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...
Vol 41 No 11 | ERITREAETHIOPIA Force majeure 26th May 2000 Ethiopia simplifies the military situation but complicates the political game Ethiopia's war aims have expanded exponentially as its soldiers have advanced. Though still formally committed to no more than forcing Eritrea out of the remaining areas it occupie...
Vol 40 No 22 | ERITREAETHIOPIA Ceasefire under threat 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 Ethiopia and Eritrea are set to start fighting again (AC Vol 40 Nos 4 & 9). Neither trusts the other and each accuses the other of preparing for war - accurately, since troop n...
Vol 40 No 22 | ERITREAETHIOPIA Battling for Badme 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...
Vol 40 No 22 | ERITREAETHIOPIA Getting DC's drift 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 Oc...
Vol 40 No 10 | ERITREAETHIOPIASUDANHORN OF AFRICA Regional collisions 14th May 1999 The Eritrea-Ethiopia war is helping the Islamist regime in Khartoum and further destabilising Djibouti and Somalia The main beneficiary of the Eritrean-Ethiopian war (AC Vol 40 No 4, Pride and prejudice & My enemy's enemy) is Sudan’s National Islamic Front government. A year ago, both...
Vol 40 No 10 | ERITREAETHIOPIAHORN OF AFRICA Eritrea and its cousins 14th May 1999 The odds are stacked against Eritrea. Ethiopia has a bigger and better equipped army and airforce, and a bigger population and economy to sustain a long war. But President Issaya...