In disputed Badme, Ethiopians reject peace with Eritrea
AFP via Yahoo News2 days agoOn the Ethiopia-Eritrea border (AFP) - If Ethiopia's reformist prime minister Abiy Ahmed wants to end a decades-long conflict with neighbouring Eritrea, he will first have to go ...
The EU is facing an existential crisis – but it is migration, not Brexit, that will be its undoing
Daily Telegraph2 hours agoSome will have escaped conscription or slavery in Eritrea; others have gone in search of a better life from a poor but peaceful village in Tunisia or Senegal. If they can raise enough ...
For Ethiopia's Abiy, big reforms carry big risks
AFP via Yahoo News5 days agoLast week alone, Abiy shook up the security services, ended a nationwide state of emergency and announced plans to liberalise the economy and resolve a two-decade-old conflict with Eritrea ...
On Ethiopia-Eritrea frontline, anger at Addis' olive branch
Reuters via Yahoo News6 days agoBADME, 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 ...
Why landlocked Ethiopia wants to launch a navy
BBC News4 days agoWhen Eritrea gained independence in 1993, Ethiopia suddenly found itself without a coastline and so it took the logical step of disbanding its navy. Now, it is reconsidering its decision ...
UAE reinforcements to join Hudaydah battle
BBC News2 days agoMilitary sources here in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) have told the BBC that a major force of Yemeni, UAE and Sudanese troops is on standby in Eritrea to take part in a final push to ...
How Ethiopia's peace offer caught Eritrea's regime by surprise
Al Jazeera6 days agoIt also said it would accept a 2002 ruling by the UN-backed Eritrea-Ethiopia Boundary Commission (EEBC), which awarded several disputed territories, including the town of Badme, to Eritrea ...
Is Eritrea Becoming The North Korea Of Africa?
Forbes5 days agoAt the end of May 2018, the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Eritrea, a group of UK Parliamentarians from across both houses of Parliament, held a session at the UK Parliament to examine ...
Ethiopia’s reforms challenged by party in ruling coalition
Washington Post5 days agoThe TPLF, which has been the dominant force in government for most of the past 27 years, said decisions to fully accept a peace deal with bitter rival Eritrea and open Ethiopia’s state-owned ...
Rescue ships finally dock in Spain as migrant debate roils Europe
NBC NEWS2 hours agoIn total so far, there were 31 different nationalities represented, with the largest numbers of people coming from the Sudan, Algeria, Eritrea and Nigeria, according to Spanish authorities ...
