07/14/2018
TMPress Special Sputnik Radio Report ... host Andrew Korybko ... Eritrea & Ethiopia: Hope for the Horn of Africa ... Our final topic, picked by you, dear listeners, earlier in a poll on our page, is “Eritrea & Ethiopia: Hope For The Horn Of Africa”, focusing on the surprising rapprochement between these two previously tense but brotherly nations. ... Formerly bitter neighbors Eritrea and Ethiopia surprisingly announced the end of Africa's longest conventional, albeit largely frozen, conflict, bringing hope that the over 100 million people in their impoverished and militarily tense Horn of Africa region can finally have a better future. Eritrea was reincorporated into Ethiopia after World War II following decades of Italian colonialism, but it soon thereafter waged a three-decade-long separatist struggle that finally succeeded at the end of the Ethiopian Civil War. A few years after independence, however, Eritrea and Ethiopia fought a bloody border war from 1998-2000 that killed an estimated 80,000 people but resulted in almost no territorial changes, though the internal consequences for each country was that they were forced to reallocate precious resources to national defense that could have otherwise been used for developmental purposes. In addition, each state also imposed a strict security regime inside their borders to thwart the militant proxies that their rival was using against them.
https://sputniknews.com/radio_trendstorm/201807141066322852-eritrea-ethiopia-hope-for-the-horn-of-africa/
To discuss this topic in more detail, Andrew Korybko is joined by Endessa Endessa, legal researcher and policy analyst with law degrees from Addis Ababa University and George Washington University.
Our final topic, picked by you, dear listeners, earlier in a poll on our page, is “Eritrea & Ethiopia: Hope For The Horn Of Africa”, focusing on the surprising rapprochement between these two previously tense but brotherly nations.
