MEKELE, Ethiopia — In a scrubby garden at an elementary school stand 12 wooden posts, one for each student killed on a summer afternoon eight years ago, when a warplane from neighboring Eritrea ...
Almost everywhere you go in Zalambessa, a town on Ethiopia's border with Eritrea, there are reminders of war: buildings in rubble, walls riddled with bullet holes and a border still delineated by two ...
Ethiopian Airlines has resumed flights to Eritrea’s capital, Asmara, after the former sworn enemies signed a peace deal to end a 20-year conflict. The historic inaugural flight took off Wednesday as ...
Ethiopia is a nation in transition. In the West, rebels are fighting government troops; to the East, lawlessness reigns in neighboring Somalia; to the north, Eritrea has massed troops along the ...
MEKELE, Ethiopia—In a scrubby garden at an elementary school here stand 12 wooden posts, one for each student killed on a summer afternoon eight years ago, when a warplane from neighboring Eritrea ...
ADDIS ABABA, Nov 1 (Reuters) - Over two decades, Eritreans poured across the border into Ethiopia, fleeing forced military service, torture, and prison in one of Africa's most repressive states. By ...
Nov 2 (Reuters) - The 1998-2000 border conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea claimed some 70,000 lives but the dispute over the frontier was never resolved. And talk of another war is worrying ...
(Reuters) - Longtime foes Ethiopia and Eritrea could be headed towards war, officials in northern Ethiopia and regional experts have warned. A conflict would signal the death blow to a historic ...
Eritrea has reopened its embassy in Ethiopia as the leaders of both countries took another significant step in strengthening the peace process between two former sworn enemies. Ethiopia’s Prime ...
IT STARTED AS a border skirmish in 1998, between Ethiopian policemen and Eritrean soldiers in Badme, a small village on a barren mountain. One observer at the time likened it to “two bald men fighting ...