• Ethiopian News Roundup - ENA
  
  
• Background and Chronology of the Eritrean Military Aggresion Ethiopian government press release
  
  
• Ethiopia Steps Up Mobilization (Reuters report from Addis Abeba)
  
  

• Ethiopia, Eritrea exchange fire on border (Reuters) Anti-aircraft guns deployed at airport... Diplomats suggest Ethiopia need not go on the offensive... Ethiopia could simply call for UN and OAU sanctions against Eritrea
  
  
• Eritrea food aid accounts for 20% of total consumption (FAO) sharp reduction in grain import availability from Ethiopia leads to sharply increased cereal prices
  
  
• Ethiopia food aid accounts for 5% of total consumption (FAO) cereal prices declined somewhat in January, but remained at high levels due to disruption of harvest by El Nino rains
  
  
• VOA update from Addis Abeba (Scott Stearns) Ethiopian defenses strengthened
  
  
• VOA update from Asmara (Carol Pineau) Eritrean War Fund
  
  
• Despite historic ties... (by Karl Vick, Washington Post)
  
  

• Ethiopia to Teach Eritrea a Lesson (Reuters) "Our target is to reverse the invasion...The political objective is to make sure the invasion does not take place again"
  
  
• Editorial cartoons concerning the Ethiopia-Eritrea conflict from Ethiopia's private press
  
  
• May-June Horn of Africa Review from the UNDP-EUE See the first section for summary of start of conflict
  
  
• Eritrea Tried To Use The Mussolini Map Against Djibouti in 1996: The "Al Hayat" reportedly said that the Eritreans built their position in the Djibouti border issue on a 1935-map made during the Mussolini era of fascist Italy. The development came as a source of concern in Paris, which dismissed the said map as out-dated and unsuitable to support the dispute over border. (From the ELF website: http://www.erols.com/meskerem/)

• Ethiopia conflict seen threatening Eritrean budget (Reuters) Eritrean government data simply not credible... see article for comments
  
  
• War in Eritrea kills off Israeli's export flowers Farm was largely dependent on Ethiopian Airlines for cargo shipment... Note: Ethiopia's flower export industry is over 20 times larger
  
  
• Ethiopia says chances of peace diminish Eritrean Rejection of Peace Plan Leaves Ethiopia No Choice:
  Mobilization expands: At one marshaling center in southern Ethiopia, television showed hundreds of men cleaning their assault rifles. Others sang war songs as they boarded buses destined for the disputed northern border... Young Ethiopian men were also shown queuing for medical check-ups at registration centers throughout the country... Fund-raising for the war effort is also in full-swing
  
  
• At the Root of an Odd African War: Money The Christian Science Monitor attempts to explain why there is war but article is riddled with inaccuracies
  
  
• The Quilt Report on the start of war: a far more astute analysis
  
  

• Eritreans Reunited With Their Families Some innocent Eritreans may have been caught up in the expulsion of Eritrean agents, spies, and EPLF supporters
  Also:
  ``We are working on the basis that if war breaks out, we will win in a way that will make Eritreans stop their adventures,'' Meles said in comments published Sunday in Al-Ahram, Egypt's leading newspaper.
  
  
• Report from Djibouti (Reuters) Djibouti port capable of handling increased cargo... Main problem is delay during Ethiopian Customs Clearance... 1,200 new dockworkers hired... Port modernisation programs accelerated... Note: Djibouti port was already more advanced than Massawa or Aseb; it handles large-tonnage ships which cannot berth at Massawa or Aseb
  
  
• Operation London Times: Lets Help Maintain Fairness and Professionalism
  
  
• Why Eritrea Rejected the Peace Plan
  
  

June 20, 1998:

• Ethiopians Displaced By Fighting Inundate Town - Report from Adigrat (LA Times) - Ethiopia controls the high ground overlooking Zallambessa... Eritreans badly beaten when they tried to storm up the mountain:

  'At the bottom of the mountain, there are still many Eritrean bodies lying in the sun... The commander's account was corroborated by shepherds and cattle herders on the mountain... One herder boy, perhaps 10 years old, claimed that he had seen about 200 corpses... "They are beaten, so all is quiet now..."'

  
  
• Ethiopia War May Be Rooted in Trade - Report from Adigrat (AP) Notes on how Eritrea tried to destroy the Adigrat pharmaceutical factory... Eritrea admits it intentionally targeted the factory... Factory was built by private investors just 2 years ago
  
  
• Eritrean operatives expelled from Ethiopia receive a hero's welcome in Asmara (Reuters)... Many more EPLF agents and supporters are on the road headed back to their country
  
  
• A Conflict that Borders on the Insane - Report from Adigrat (Guardian - from June 16)"Isaias is a madman," said Aylew Kassa, a sergeant in the Ethiopian army whose wife is Eritrean. "We have no quarrel with the people of Eritrea."
  
  

June 19, 1998:

• Eritrea accuses the OAU of misrepresentation: " ...a senior Eritrean official told Reuters this was a distorted version of the meeting with OAU mediators. "We gave them those views and our proposals on how to find a long-term solution. Anything else would be a gross misrepresentation of what actually happened,"
  
  
• The Graziani Massacre Lest we forget the origin of the Eritrean problem
  
  
• Eritrean Detainees: [Eth. Emb. Press Release] The Ethiopian government is currently holding 140 Eritrean national conscripts at a center in the town of Fiche, about 100 kms from Addis Ababa. Journalists, the ICRC, and other organizations are allowed free access to these detainees who are being held purely for reasons of national security. A number of others who were taken in have now been questioned and released. Eritrea has detained more than 530 Ethiopian civilians and has refused access to them by the ICRC and journalists.
  
  
• Artillery duel reported at Zalambessa as peace talks fail...(AFP)
  
  
• Eritreans apparently have added new objection to peace plan... They demand border definition according to unilateral, Mussolini-era Italian map (supposed representation of colonial treaties) and not according to international law.
  
  
• Ethiopia Sees Threat in Resident Eritreans - LA Times report from Addis Abeba -Note: precautions against Eritrean government operatives in Ethiopia were taken following Issayas Afeworqi's threats of terrorist attacks made on June 12... The murder of an opposition leader during the previous week is suspected to be the work of Eritrean agents trying to promote political turmoil in Ethiopia
  
  
• Eritrea begins to make new threats against Ethiopia on account of airlines refusing to fly to Asmara (Reuters)
  
  
• Fears of new fighting as Horn peace talks stall - David Gough Reports from Addis Abeba -"Eritrea will have to pay for bombing raids on civilians..."
  
  
• OAU team continues efforts for an unscheduled second day... Egypt Air cancels plan to resume commercial flights to Asmara on Friday... Major commercial flights unlikely to return to Asmara until a comprehensive peace package is agreed... (Reuters)