Ethiopia will give a long-disputed swath of land to Eritrea, the government announced Tuesday. The executive committee of the EPRDF, Ethiopia’s ruling coalition, said that it would adhere to the terms ...
Life in Badme goes on as normal. Children play table tennis in the street, women wash clothes on the doorsteps, off-duty soldiers laze under the trees. There is no sign in this sleepy, dusty village ...
Bethlehem Abimet is a symbol of peace and hope for Ethiopia. She was born just three weeks before the crucial border ruling, in the destroyed village of Zalambessa - one of the key areas contested by ...
Badme thus became a highly symbolic place, and whoever would be accorded it under the EEBC decision would carry the day and be perceived as the ultimate victor of the war. This may be the reason why ...
BADME, Ethiopia-Eritrea border (Reuters) - For the residents of Badme, a desolate border town in the war-scarred badlands between Ethiopia and Eritrea, new Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's peace overtures ...
Addis Ababa - Badme, the dusty town that was at the centre of a 30-month war between Ethiopia and Eritrea, is now fueling a propaganda war over the outcome of international arbitration on their common ...
Ethiopia appears to have lost its final attempt to secure the disputed border village of Badme. The row over the village and its 5,000 residents sparked a two-and-a-half year bloody border war in 1998 ...
Eritrea and Ethiopia show signs of ending decades-long disagreement. The Eritrean President has referred to "positive signals" from Ethiopia. An estimated 80,000 people died in a brutal battle between ...
“SHOULD Eritrea launch another war, we will make certain it will never ever dream of entertaining or thinking about war again.” So said Ethiopia's prime minister, Meles Zenawi, in a recent speech to ...