’THE POOR HAVE THE RIGHT TO WAGE WAR TOO’
Ethiopia invades Eritrea
After two years of war, the prospects of a genuine peace between Ethiopia and Eritrea still seem uncertain, despite periodic lulls in the fighting, mediation and hard-won ceasefires achieved by the Organisation of African Unity - and even despite the peace agreement signed in Algiers on 18 June.
by Jean-Louis Péninou
May’s successful Ethiopian offensives radically altered the military and humanitarian situation on the ground and showed that the aims of Ethiopia and Eritrea were now irreconcilable. At the start of the war, Ethiopian forces numbered about 50,000 and were mainly the former Tigrean troops that (...)
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