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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BY AMANUEL BIEDEMARIAM Peace is not lottery price that you win by gambling. Peace is not something we can buy or barter to get. Peace is not something that is handed as a gift. Peace is a decision, a commitment for tranquil, quiet life free from disturbance. Peace is a decision a commitment to life-free […]
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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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BY BEREKET KIDANE An American proverb says, “Good fences make good neighbors.” The same thing can be said about demarcated borders. Demarcated borders make for good neighbors. Eritrea must demarcate its border with Ethiopia not to separate itself from its neighbor but to prevent future territorial disputes.
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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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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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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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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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