Eritrea sends soldiers into Djibouti, moneybiz.co.za, 4-21-08
Addis Ababa – Eritrean soldiers have crossed the border into Djibouti and begun building defences, Djiboutian officials said.
“Eritrean soldiers made an incursion into Djibouti territory two or three days ago in the Ras Doumeira area,” an official who did not want to be identified said in a telephone interview.
“The situation is not clear,” he said, adding, “Top level negotiations are under way to resolve the problem.”
Another source said, “There are Eritreans in Doumeira and work is being done.”
The source said trenches had been dug on both sides of the border, with the Eritreans infringing several hundred metres (yards) on to Djiboutian territory.”
However the official said the Eritreans digging the trenches seemed to be civilian labourers and not troops.
“This region is very isolated and it was a week before Djibouti authorities realised what was going on.” A military source said French forces based in Djibouti had carried out a reconnaissance Thursday at the government’s request but had not been able to confirm an incursion.”
Djibouti and Eritrea have clashed twice in the past over the border area situated at the southern end of Red Sea. In April 1996 they almost went to war after a Djibouti official accused Asmara of shelling the town of Ras Doumeira.
In 1999 Eritrea accused Djibouti of siding with Asmara’s arch-foe Ethiopia while Djibouti alleged its neighbour was supporting Djiboutian rebels and had designs on the Ras Doumeira region, which Eritrea denied.
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Are you guys spreading rumors from Aids Ababa? I can’t believe you do such silly thing in the name of information or should I say miss information. This is what I call an irresponsible journalism and you have the nerve to acuse the GOE of not having freedom of the press. With “Press” people like you who needs Weyanes?
The news is totally a false fabrication of Ethiopia to blackmail Eritrea
It is very scary in there
Isaias Afewerki’s “brutal Machiavellian principle of ‘the end justifies the means’” is not limited to national issues only. Afewerki’s foreign policy is also guided by this same approach.
Eritrea’s efforts to seek harmony and peace between and among the nations in the Horn of Africa–Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan–and to strive for the stability and security of the region is a very noble cause that deserves all the credit and is worth every endeavor in the world.
But this noble goal, or end, does not justify the means; Afewerki’s egomaniacal and tyrannical unilateral actions and dictates. That is what’s getting Eritrea’s tyrant Afewerki into trouble with others including the US, not his ostensibly noble intentions.
Regional problems mandate regional solutions first and foremost and if necessary need to be reconciled with the interests of continental and international stakeholders. No one is and can be against Eritrea for trying to help the Djibouti, Somalis, the Ethiopians or the Sudanese. But every one is rightly against Isaias Afewerki’s tyrannical means of attaining this laudable goal because the end, regardless how noble it might be, does not justify the means.