Ethiopian army  #zehabesha news,#seifu on ebs,#dr abiy ahmed
Channel: Luel entertaiment & arts
Date: 2020-11-11

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With the Organisation of African Unity's attempts to broker a ceasefire between Ethiopia and Eritrea foundering, fighting looks likely to escalate on the barren front.

Tens of thousands of soldiers who've been engaged in trench warfare in the border region have been killed since fighting began in May last year.

But after spending (m) millions of dollars re-arming both countries have also been deploying sophisticated fighter aircraft.

APTN were shown the Ethiopian army attacking Eritrean positions in a desolate stretch of land on the shared border last week.

After 14 months of fighting there were hopes of peace at the Organisation of African Unity summit in Algeria.

But on Thursday Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi arrived back from Algiers blaming Eritrea for back-tracking on the peace process.

He accused Eritrea of presenting new preconditions on the OAU's proposed peace plan.

The original 11 point plan calls for Eritrea to withdraw from this region, the western-most front along the 1,000 kilometre border. 

Libyan leader Colonel Muammar Gadhafi also tried and failed to bring the Ethiopian and Eritrean leaders together for talks in Tripoli on the eve of the OAU summit.

Eritrea captured this Badme region at the start of the war in May 1998 and in February this year the Ethiopians took it back.

If the claims of both countries are believed more than 100,000 soldiers have died -  more likely this figure is in the tens of thousands. 

The United Nations says hundreds of thousands of civilians have also been displaced in the conflict.

APTN was shown tanks, weaponry and Eritrean prisoners of war, who it was claimed were captured from the Eritreans.
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It took thirty years of fighting for Eritrea to break away from Ethiopia and after only seven years of independence war broke out again.

This time analysts are hard pressed to explain the fighting - the most likely explanation is that Eritrea invaded because the Ethiopians refused to accept their currency trade at a one to one rate with Eritrea's new currency.