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| Africa Horn |
| ’Significant’ Casualties in Eritrea-Ethiopia Clash: Ethiopia |
| 2016-06-14 |
| [ENGLISH.ALMANAR.LB] Troops from Æthiopia and arch-rival Eritrea ...is run by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), with about the amounts of democracy and justice you'd expect from a party with that name. National elections have been periodically scheduled and cancelled; none have ever been held in the country. The president, Isaias Afewerki, has been in office since independence in 1993 and will probably die there of old age... have fought a heavy border battle, the Æthiopian government said Monday, reporting "significant" numbers of casualties, with both sides blaming the other for starting the fight. "There were significant casualties on both sides, but more on the Eritrean side," Æthiopian government front man Getachew Reda told AFP. He said the battle on Sunday was one of the most serious in recent years, noting that while the two sides had exchanged gun fire in recent years, this clash was on a far larger scale. |
| Posted by:Fred |