Discontent with President Isaias Afewerki reached a breaking point last week when rogue soldiers seized the Eritrean Information Ministry.
The War Between Ethiopia and Eritrea
Key Points
During the 30-year war against the Ethiopian military dictatorship, the EPLF and TPLF guerrilla movements worked closely together and achieved victory in 1991 as the firmest of friends.
Despite claims to the contrary, Ethiopia and Eritrea have been fighting not over a border but over rival hegemonic claims in the Horn of Africa and over “national pride” and “territorial integrity.”
Its neighbors see Eritrea as having deliberately chosen an aggressive foreign policy as a central element in its nation building strategy; Eritrea fears the threat of Ethiopian regional dominance.
Even by the shocking standards of recent African conflicts, the May 1998-June 2000 war in the Horn of Africa is truly appalling. As many as 100,000 people have been killed in the intermittent, but savage fighting; up to one million people have been driven into exile or internal displacement; hundreds of millions of dollars have been diverted from development into arms procurement.
U.S. Policy Regarding Burma
UN Peacekeeping: An Uncertain Future
Greening the Bretton Woods Institutions
Cold War Military Relics: Why Congress Funds Them
In July 1999, as the fiscal year 2000 military budget was winding its way through Congress, the Pentagon and Texas-based arms maker Lockheed Martin were dealt a blow to the solar plexus.
IMF: Reform, Downsize, or Abolish
Women in the Middle East
Peru: Democracy & Dictatorship
Sri Lanka’s Long War
Key Points