Vol 51 No 10 | ERITREA Blaming the USA 14th May 2010 On 23 December 2009, the United Nations Security Council voted 13 to 1 (Libya) with one abstention (China) to impose sanctions on Eritrea because it supported extremist opposition...
Vol 51 No 5 | ERITREASOMALIA Target Asmara 5th March 2010 UN experts identify Asmara’s troublemaking in Somalia but the Security Council may not do much about it A new United Nations investigation, still under wraps but seen by Africa Confidential, will lead to further quarrels in the UN Security Council over what to do about...
Vol 50 No 23 | ERITREASOMALIA Al Shabaab targets Eritrea 20th November 2009 Al Shabaab, Somalia's main Islamist insurgent movement, has a new country in its sights. Its Spokesperson, Suldan Mohammed Aala Mohammed, has announced the addition of Eritrea to the...
Vol 50 No 18 | DJIBOUTIERITREAETHIOPIASOMALIA Dangers and dilemmas in the Horn of Africa 11th September 2009 The most dangerous corner of Africa is its north-eastern Horn, where instability reigns and terrorism thrives on the antagonisms of its governments The fate of Somalia is in the balance, as the Transitional Federal Government struggles for control against Islamist insurgents. Eritrea and Ethiopia are engaged in an unremitting struggle....
Vol 50 No 12 | ERITREA Mistaken identity 12th June 2009 The Eritrean opposition’s struggles to be heard may be harder since its main news site got into difficulties last week. The Awate.com website claimed that a film crew...
Vol 49 No 17 | ERITREAETHIOPIA Bristling border 22nd August 2008 The United Nations has given up, the parties will not talk and the troops are face to face The risk of another war between Ethiopia and Eritrea grew on 31 July, when the United Nations Security Council closed its mission along the border, the UN...
Vol 49 No 13 | DJIBOUTIERITREA Shooting war in Djibouti 20th June 2008 The border battle at the mouth of the Red Sea looks more like Eritrean aggression Fighting has begun around Ras Doumeira, the area of Djibouti seized by Eritrean troops in April (AC Vol 49 No 11). Both sides had built up their forces,...
Vol 49 No 11 | DJIBOUTIERITREA A dangerous invasion 23rd May 2008 Eritrea sent its troops into Djibouti, a small country with powerful allies After Djibouti complained that Eritrea had invaded, President Issayas Afewerki responded on 19 May that this was 'a wild invention' with hidden foreign backing. On 4 April, Eritrean...
Vol 49 No 7 | ERITREA The border deadlock 28th March 2008 The UN is casting around for big ideas to end the dangerous stalemate of the future of the border - but none have emerged yet Next week, United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is to deliver a report on the Ethiopian-Eritrean border dispute which Ethiopia hopes will break the logjam and deliver a...
Vol 48 No 20 | ERITREAETHIOPIA That troublesome border 5th October 2007 The quarrel between Addis Ababa and Asmara over their common border and the political chaos in Somalia is intensifying. The heat turned up after the Ethiopia Eritrea...