Call to power
06-09-2007, 19:34
It appears my time machine works after all! either that or there is going to be another conflict in the horn of Africa (because you' know towns are worth killing thousands of people over especially when the evidence points to you not owning the town!)
War could resume between Ethiopia and Eritrea unless they accept a resolution of their border conflict, a former Horn of Africa UN envoy has warned.
the former United Nations special envoy to the Horn of Africa, Kjell Bondevik, told the BBC the positions of Ethiopia and Eritrea were becoming more entrenched.
"After my last visit in the region, which took place in June, I really fear an escalating of the conflict and I will not exclude the possibility of a new war," Mr Bondevik warned.
For the past six years, some of the world's senior experts on border disputes have been poring over obscure maps of the Horn of Africa.
when the Boundary Commission, established by the peace treaty decided in April 2002 just where the border should lie, Ethiopia refused to accept its findings.
This was - essentially - because the town of Badme, the ownership of which had sparked off the original conflict, was handed to Eritrea.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/6982244.stm
picture of Badme's thriving industry:
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/1227/csmimg/p6a.jpg
War could resume between Ethiopia and Eritrea unless they accept a resolution of their border conflict, a former Horn of Africa UN envoy has warned.
the former United Nations special envoy to the Horn of Africa, Kjell Bondevik, told the BBC the positions of Ethiopia and Eritrea were becoming more entrenched.
"After my last visit in the region, which took place in June, I really fear an escalating of the conflict and I will not exclude the possibility of a new war," Mr Bondevik warned.
For the past six years, some of the world's senior experts on border disputes have been poring over obscure maps of the Horn of Africa.
when the Boundary Commission, established by the peace treaty decided in April 2002 just where the border should lie, Ethiopia refused to accept its findings.
This was - essentially - because the town of Badme, the ownership of which had sparked off the original conflict, was handed to Eritrea.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/6982244.stm
picture of Badme's thriving industry:
http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/1227/csmimg/p6a.jpg