Several news agencies are reporting that [according to Libya] Ethiopia and Eritrea have agreed to a Libyan Ceasefire plan. This seems unlikely.
The Gaddafi initiative is not about peace. It is about Gaddafi feeling lonely in Tripoli, and Issayas Afeworki feeling desperate in Asmara.
Libya is an international outcast nation that is currently under UN sanctions. There is an air embargo, so no international flights can go to Tripoli. The sanctions are because of Libya's role in the Pan Am Lockerbie terrorist attack in 1989.
Earlier this year, none other than Eritrean President Issayas Afeworki made the bus trip from Cairo to Tripoli to visit Gaddafi. While he was there, he endorsed the Libyan position on Lockerbie. In exchange, Gaddafi promised to open a bank in Asmara.
Now it appears that Gaddafi and Issayas Afeworki are continuing to use each other. Issayas desperately needs a face saving way out of his self-made crisis. He cannot accept the US peace plan because of his ego. Also he would have to explain to the Eritrean people why the hell he destroyed their economy and got hundreds of their people killed for nothing
It should be noted that Gaddafi is a notoriously unstable individual. In 1979 or 1980 he came to Addis Abeba to attend an OAU summit meeting. For some reason he insisted that his armed, female bodyguards be allowed to accompany him into the conference hall where all the other heads-of-state were sitting. The Ethiopian security officers refused, and there was a shooting incident. Gaddafi left Addis Abeba immediately in a huff and has not returned to the OAU meetings…. That is until today, where he is scheduled to speak at the OAU summit meeting in Burkina Faso.
- Dagmawi