Life in Badme goes on as normal. Children play table tennis in the street, women wash clothes on the doorsteps, off-duty soldiers laze under the trees. There is no sign in this sleepy, dusty village ...

In May 1998, armed forces of Eritrea entered the disputed region of Badme, then under the control of Ethiopia. Surprised ...

The fate of one place in particular is eagerly awaited: Badme, the village where it all began on 6 May with an armed incident between Eritrean and Ethiopian militia, ...

Zalambessa and Badme - two of the contested areas in the disputed border zone and debated over by the Border Commission - saw some of the heaviest fighting during the bloody two-year war between ...

A full-scale war broke out between Ethiopia and Eritrea in May 1998 and focused on the town of Badme, which both sides claimed belonged to them. Eritrea was found to have triggered the war by ...

NPR's Jason Beaubien reports. JASON BEAUBIEN reporting: In 1998, Ethiopia and Eritrea went to war over a tiny border town called Badme. Now Badme isn't even its own town. Officially, the village ...

Ethiopia appears to have lost its final attempt to secure the disputed border village of Badme. The row over the village and its 5,000 residents sparked a two-and-a-half year bloody border war in 1998 ...

Badme – Gebreselassie Woldeabzigi, a 72-year-old Ethiopian, fled his hometown in Badme, a border town of around 2,000 people in May 1998. It was the start of a two-year war between Ethiopia and ...

In 2002 it awarded the disputed village of Badme to Eritrea. Ethiopia rejected the verdict, and has since used diplomatic verbiage to obfuscate and stall. Eritrea naturally took the commission at ...

Ethiopia and Eritrea disputed nearly three-fourths of the border defined by the commission, and the town of Badme in the west became a major flash point. The commission awarded it to Eritrea ...