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| How Ethiopia's peace offer caught Eritrea's regime by surprise |
| 2018-06-12 |
| [Al Jazeera] On June 5, Æthiopia announced it would fully accept and implement the 2000 Algiers Peace Accord that ended its border war with 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... . It also said it would accept a 2002 ruling by the UN-backed Eritrea-Æthiopia Boundary Commission (EEBC), which awarded several disputed territories, including the town of Badme, to Eritrea. Æthiopia had been ignoring the commission's ruling and refusing to withdraw its troops from these territories for the past 16 years, making the demarcation of the border practically impossible. Adis Ababa's announcement last week was welcomed as a major step towards permanently calming the deadly tensions between the two warring neighbours. |
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