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The Eritrean–Ethiopian War, [a] also known as the Badme War, [b] was a major armed conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea that took place from May 1998 to June 2000. After Eritrea gained independence from Ethiopia in 1993, relations were initially friendly.
2007 September – War could resume between Ethiopia and Eritrea over their border conflict, warns United Nations special envoy to the Horn of Africa, Kjell Magne Bondevik. 2007 November – Eritrea accepts border line demarcated by international boundary commission.
The Algiers Agreement was a peace agreement between the governments of Eritrea and Ethiopia that was signed on 12 December 2000, at Algiers, Algeria, to formally end the Eritrean–Ethiopian War, a border war fought by the two countries from 1998 to 2000. In the agreement, the two parties reaffirmed the Agreement on Cessation of Hostilities ...
The bitter border conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea, once a single nation, played out far from the global spotlight. ... It was a war that killed some 80,000 people and sputtered to life again ...
13 May 1998 – In what Eritrean radio described as a "total war" policy, Ethiopia mobilized its forces for a full assault against Eritrea. [ 2 ] 5 June 1998 – the Eritrean air force attacked an elementary school in Mekelle that killed 49 of the students and their parents and the neighbors that came to help immediately.
Relations between Eritrea and Ethiopia have been brittle and tensions between the two countries have remained high after both countries fought each other in the Eritrean–Ethiopian War which lasted from 1998 to 2000, and since the end of the war there have been a number of small border skirmishes between the two countries using small arms, however the 2016 engagement utilized "medium- and ...
When Ethiopia's government and rebellious forces from the Tigray region agreed in November to end their conflict, diplomats hailed the peace deal as a new dawn for Africa's second most populous ...
The Eritrean–Ethiopian border conflict was a violent standoff and a proxy conflict between Eritrea and Ethiopia lasting from 1998 to 2018. It consisted of a series of incidents along the then-disputed border; including the Eritrean–Ethiopian War of 1998–2000 and the subsequent Second Afar insurgency. [8]