Longtime foes Ethiopia and Eritrea could be headed towards war, officials in northern Ethiopia and regional experts have ...

Eritrea ordered a nationwide military mobilisation ... But clashes broke out in 1998 along the border over ownership of the disputed town of Badme, leading to a two-year war in which an estimated ...

Eritrea gained independence from Ethiopia in ... with economic tension precipitated a minor border skirmish around Badme on 6 May 1998, swiftly escalating into a full-blown border war.