An Eritrean poses near a tank abandoned during the 1998-2000 border war with Ethiopia in Shambuko Town, Eritrea, December 23, 2005. The two countries have been in a "Cold War" scenario since the ...

Scenes from around this Horn of Africa capital give ample evidence why two of the poorest nations in the world cannot afford to go to war.On street corners, beggars queue up at car windows with ...

Eritrean and Ethiopian troops pummeled each other with shells and rockets along their disputed border Tuesday, while diplomats and hundreds of frightened foreigners fled the Eritrean capital.

The first phase of the war lasted until mid-June 1998. Both sides used aircraft types available before the war. MiG-21 and MG-23BN by Ethiopia and Aermacchi MB-339 by Eritrea.

It was a war that killed some 80,000 people and sputtered to life again and again over two decades, pulling in soldiers including a young Ethiopian who fought in a contested town at the center of ...

The neighbours then fought a 1998-2000 border war. They remained formally at war until 2018, when Abiy and Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki agreed to normalise ties.

But clashes broke out in 1998 along the border over ownership of the disputed town of Badme, leading to a two-year war in which an estimated 80,000 people were killed.

But the peace deal signed in November 2022 drove a wedge between Ethiopia and Eritrea, which was not party to the negotiations. The TPLF, which runs Tigray's post-war interim administration with ...