Vol 40 No 4 | ERITREAETHIOPIA Pride and prejudice 19th February 1999 Both sides seem to be keen to fight to the death in one of the least explicable wars On 6 February, Ethiopia launched the first of several attacks to test how deeply Eritrean forces were dug in along the disputed border areas which they had taken over in May-June. ...
Vol 40 No 4 | ERITREAETHIOPIA My enemy's enemy 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 i...
Vol 40 No 1 | ERITREAETHIOPIA Who dares, loses 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 Afewerk...
Vol 39 No 21 | ERITREAETHIOPIA Moving deadlines 23rd October 1998 OAU negotiators are desperate to secure peace before the rains end For now, hopes of agreement between Eritrea and Ethiopia rest on the Organisation of African Unity. The former Director of the United States’ National Security Council, Anthony Lak...
Vol 39 No 19 | ERITREAETHIOPIA After the rains 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 difference...
Vol 39 No 18 | ERITREAETHIOPIA Brothers at war 11th September 1998 In diplomacy and the shooting war, both Eritrea and Ethiopia are confident of victory War has weakened Premier Meles Zenawi but the conflict with Eritrea has certainly not brought him down. Rumours had run through Addis Ababa that he was under house arrest and forbi...
Vol 39 No 18 | ERITREAETHIOPIA On the border 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 mot...
Vol 39 No 18 | ETHIOPIA Oromo opening 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, ...
Vol 39 No 17 | ERITREAETHIOPIA Mothballed MiGs 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...
Vol 39 No 16 | ERITREAETHIOPIA Last ditch 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 rene...