Posted on 06/06/2018 6:11:57 AM PDT by Red Badger
Ethiopia's governing coalition has announced it will fully accept and implement the peace deal that ended its border war with Eritrea.
It says it will accept the outcome of a 2002 border commission ruling, which awarded disputed territories, including the town of Badme, to Eritrea.
This will end a dispute with Eritrea that sparked Africa's deadliest border war in 1998.
Tens of thousands of people were killed in two years of fighting.
The two sides have remained on a war footing as Ethiopia had, until now, refused to accept the ruling of the border commission, which was set up as part of a peace deal.
As a result, Ethiopia had refused to withdraw its troops out of the disputed areas - leading Eritrea to accuse Ethiopia of forcefully occupying its territory.
"The Eritrean government should take the same stand without any prerequisite and accept our call to bring back the long-lost peace of the two brother nations as it was before," the ruling Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) wrote on Facebook.
Eritrea had refused to hold any talks with Ethiopia until it agreed unconditionally to the border commission's findings.
Ethiopia's new Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed had promised to make peace with the country's northern neighbour after taking power earlier this year.
BBC World Service Africa editor Will Ross says if Ethiopia does now remove soldiers from the disputed land, it would show it is serious about seeking peace.
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Praise Ras Tafari!
Smoke ‘em if ya got ‘em!.................
Peace is breaking out all over!
They want to be part of Trump’s “Peace and Prosperity” world-wide movement.
Looks like some political openness is finally coming to Ethiopia. Thousands of political prisoners were released earlier this year, and the ruling party (People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front) is becoming a bit more inclusive, with a new Prime Minister from outside Tigrayan ethnic group of the Party’s original core leadership.
The economy of Ethiopia has been doing well since they overthrew the dictator Mengistu back in the 1990s. Called the “Lion Economy” of Africa, GDP has been growing more than 10% per year for the last 10 or 15 years. Given its growing economic power, and its large population (over 100 million, the second largest in Africa), changes in Ethiopia are increasingly important to the region.
Ethiopia is also a majority Christian country, which has adopted unique methods of controlling islamic radicalism within their large muslim minority.
It is an interesting and dynamic country, and now its long frozen political system seems to be in flux.
Fun fact: The biggest Ethiopian community outside of Africa, is around Washington, D.C.
They were broke....................
That is probably true.
So all the more reason that ‘peace an prosperity’ sounds good to them.
I think countries are seeing that Trump is rewarding peace instead of the usual
Thanks Red Badger. One of the long term goals of Islamic countries is to destroy Ethiopia; over the past 40 years there have been a series of wars in neighboring countries, and of course the ridiculous "independence" movements that have resulted in Ethiopia's becoming landlocked.
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