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| Africa Horn |
| Eritrea occupies disputed territory after Qataris exit, Djibouti files complaint |
| 2017-06-17 |
| [Iran Press TV] Djibouti has accused neighboring 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... of occupying a disputed territory along the two neighboring countries' borderline. "Qatar ...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates... i peacekeepers withdrew on June 12 and 13. On the same day, there were Eritrean military movements on the mountain," Foreign Minister Mahamoud Ali Youssouf said on Friday. Qatari peacekeepers had been in control of the disputed mountainous border crossing between Eritrea and Djibouti. "They [Eritreans] are now in full control of Dumeira Mountain and Dumeira Island. This is in breach of the United Nations ...an idea whose time has gone... Security Council resolution," he said. The minister said Djibouti had lodged complaints with both the United Nations and the African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... , adding that its military forces were "on alert". On the other side of the dispute, Nasredin Ali, a front man for Eritrea's biggest gang, known as the Red Sea Afar Democratic Organization, confirmed that Eritrean forces moved into the disputed region after the Qatari troops pulled out. Qatari forces were deployed to the region after deadly festivities broke out between the Horn of Africa countries in 2008. The UN Security Council then requested both sides to withdraw from the area, before the neighbors accepted a Qatari request to mediate and deploy peacekeepers. |
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