Sudan, Ethiopia to Hold Border Demarcation Talks

Negotiations to be held on Tuesday, a week after Ethiopian forces killed at least four Sudanese soldiers along the border. BY AL JAZEERA Sudan and Ethiopia will hold negotiations next week to delineate their shared border, a statement from Sudanese Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok’s office said on Sunday. The talks will be held on Tuesday, […]

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Improvement in Eritrea-Ethiopia Relations and the Way Forward

BY BERHE HABTE-GIORGIS, Professor Emeritus The last weekend saw historic developments in the relations between Eritrea and Ethiopia: an end to two decades of state of war and return to peace relations to pre-war years. The details of the agreement include implementation of the decision of the Boundary Commission, to “forge intimate political, economic, social, […]

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Can Ethiopia and Eritrea Make Peace?

Anything less than the ‘unconditional’ removal of Ethiopia’s occupying forces from sovereign Eritrean territories, including Badme simply prolongs the statuesque … BY THE ECONOMIST “LIKE Sarajevo, 1914,” said the late Ethiopian prime minister, Meles Zenawi, of the first gunshots fired on May 6th, 1998. “An accident waiting to happen.” Neither he nor his counterpart in […]

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Ethiopia and Eritrea: What Will it Take to Break the Deadlock?

BY MARTIN PLAUT The stalemate along the Ethiopian-Eritrean border benefits almost no-one. Two armies stare at each other across the 1,000 kilometre border – as they have done since June 2000, when the fighting ended. Every so often there is a flare-up. An Eritrean border guard will fire at [human smugglers] a refugee attempting to cross […]

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The Necessity for the Implementation of the Eritrea – Ethiopia Boundary Commission (EEBC)

for The Protection of all Human Rights in Eritrea and as a Priority. BY RUBY SANDHU This article sets out the case for the root and primary cause of the alleged exodus from Eritrea, that is the International community’s failure to enforce Ethiopia’s compliance and implementation of the EEBC and the ensuing need for [indefinite] […]

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President Isaias Sent Message to UN Security Council

BY SHABAIT President Isaias Afwerki has sent messages to several Heads of State and Government urging them to use their influences in the UN Security Council to redress the injustices perpetrated against Eritrea. In his message, President Isaias stressed that the UN Security Council has the obligation, primary responsibility and legal mandate to ensure and […]

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