Ethiopian-Eritrean War (PresidentOfYes12)

The Ethiopia-Eritrea war, also unofficially deemed Africa's Third World War, was an international military conflict that lasted from 2022 to 2024, and took place mainly along the Horn of Africa. The conflict began when Eritrea, which had been covertly supporting the Somali opposition in the Somali Civil War, invaded Ethiopia for assisting in the defeat of the Somali opposition and not increasing their payment for a strip of land that Ethiopia purchased from them.
Egypt and Ethiopia had been in a conflict regarding Ethiopia's decision to dam the Nile River- if this plan finished, many Egyptians would be displaced. Instead of going through with the plan to make the dam(s), Ethiopia invaded the unrecognized sovereign state of Somaliland, forcing it back into Somalia, and heavily assisting in effectively ending the Somali Civil War, in exchange for a strip of land that connected Ethiopia to the Red Sea.
Tensions had risen prior to the war between Ethiopia and Eritrea, particularly due to a border conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea during the late 1990s and early 2000s, although they did begin to lower after Abiy Ahmed was selected to be the Prime Minister of Ethiopia and temporarily ended the tensions through a peace summit.
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