Longtime foes Ethiopia and Eritrea could be headed towards war, officials in northern Ethiopia and regional experts have warned. A conflict would signal the death blow to a historic rapprochement ...

Relations between the two countries have remained fragile since Eritrea gained independence from Ethiopia in 1993. A bloody border war from 1998 to 2000 left tens of thousands dead, and although a ...

Eritrea seceded from Ethiopia in the 1990s, which resulted in Ethiopia losing direct access to the sea. From 1998, the countries fought a two-year border war.

Tensions in Ethiopia’s Tigray region have escalated significantly, threatening to reignite conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea and destabilize the Horn of Africa. The Tigray People’s ...

Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said on Thursday that his government would not seek conflict with longtime foe Eritrea over access to the Red Sea, after regional officials and experts warned ...

Ethiopia and Eritrea have a long history of conflict. They fought a three-decade war that resulted in Eritrea gaining independence in 1991, depriving Ethiopia of direct access to the sea. They ...

At any moment war between Ethiopia and Eritrea could break out. It will draw in the whole neighbouring region, including Sudan, and the security of the Red Sea will be directly affected. Central to ...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Ethiopian police have killed 30 armed people who tried to illegally enter the country’s territory from Eritrea, an official said Friday. Ethiopian forces have ...

Infighting between rival factions in the northern Ethiopian region of Tigray has raised the spectre of a fresh war between Ethiopia and neighbouring Eritrea, analysts and residents said Thursday.

Additionally, Ethiopia was at war with Eritrea [PDF] from 1998 to 2000. The war was followed by a nearly twenty-year-long frozen conflict, effectively paralyzing both countries politically and ...