Eritrea

The UN awarded Eritrea to Ethiopia in 1952 as part of a federation. Ethiopia's annexation of Eritrea as a province 10 years later sparked a 30-year struggle for independence that ended in 1991 with Eritrean rebels defeating governmental forces; independence was overwhelmingly approved in a 1993 referendum. A two-and-a-half-year border war with Ethiopia that erupted in 1998 ended under UN auspices in December 2000. Eritrea hosted a UN peacekeeping operation that monitored a 25 km-wide Temporary Security Zone (TSZ) on the border with Ethiopia. Eritrea's denial of fuel to the mission caused the UN to withdraw the mission and terminate its mandate 31 July 2008. An international commission, organized to resolve the border dispute, posted its findings in 2002. However, both parties have been unable to reach agreement on implementing the decision. On 30 November 2007, the Eritrea-Ethiopia Boundary Commission remotely demarcated the border by coordinates and dissolved itself, leaving Ethiopia still occupying several tracts of disputed territory, including the town of Badme. Eritrea accepted the EEBC's "virtual demarcation" decision and called on Ethiopia to remove its troops from the TSZ that it states is Eritrean territory. Ethiopia has not accepted the virtual demarcation decision.
==Economical characteristics==
* Currency: Nakfa (ISO code: ERN)
* Central bank discount rate: 
* Commercial banks lending rate: NA%
* Stock of money (M1): $896.2 million (31 December 2008)
* Quasi money (with M1 makes M2): $1.053 billion (31 December 2008)
===Statistics===
Statistic / Year 	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005 	2006 	2007 	2008
GDP (million USD)World Bank. "Eritrea: GDP", from World Bank Data. Referenced 2010-10-01. 	689 	634 	688 	675 	598 	631 	1 161	1 282	1 374	1 654
Govt. debt (% of GDP)World Bank. "Eritrea: government debt", from World Bank Data. Referenced 2010-10-01. 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Govt. revenue (% of GDP)World Bank. "Eritrea: government revenue", from World Bank Data. Referenced 2010-10-01. 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Govt. expenses (% of GDP)World Bank. "Eritrea: government expenses", from World Bank Data. Referenced 2010-10-01.	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
Debt to revenue (years) 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	 	
==References==
Note: statistical data was rounded. Different sources may use different methodologies for their estimates. Debt to revenue is calculated by dividing the two variables from their original ('unrounded') values. It represents how long it would a government take to repay its entire debt if it used its whole revenue for this purpose.
==External links==
* Eritrea on Wikipedia
* The reported Central bank of Eritrea
* Country profile (pdf) from the Enterprise Studies page (part of the The World Bank Group)
* BBC country profile
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