Ethiopia, Eritrea and border wars

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🗓️ 25 February 2023

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Relations between Eritrea and Ethiopia have historically been difficult. Eritrea won independence from Ethiopia in 1993 after a 30-year war. A bitter border war between the two countries began a few years later. But by 2020, Eritrea sent troops to fight alongside the Ethiopian government against rebel forces in its northern Tigray region. Kalkidan Yibeltal is a BBC correspondent in Addis Ababa. He explains the complex history between the two countries, and looks at the tentative peace now emerging in Tigray.

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1:19.6	Today Ethiopia, Eritrea and Border Wars.
1:26.6	Located in the east of Africa alongside the Red Sea and the Horn of Africa, Ethiopia is
1:32.8	one of the fastest growing countries in the world. But it has a long history of
1:37.9	ethnic conflict and its relationship with its neighbour Eritrea in particular has
1:42.9	been a fratious and violent one. Ethiopia remained independent during the
1:48.3	colonial conquests of Africa but in the 19th century Italy created a colony
1:54.0	called Eritrea around Asmara. Following Italy's defeat in the Second World War,
2:00.0	Britain occupied Eritrea and then in 1952 Eritrea was federated with Ethiopia
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