VOA News
Peacekeeping units from Jordan, Kenya and other countries began leaving Ethiopia in August. The state-run Ethiopian News Agency Monday said the last batch of peacekeepers, a battalion from India, left the city of Mekele on Sunday.
There was no immediate confirmation from the U.N.
The U.N. Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea watched the tense border between the two countries for seven and a half years. The Security Council shut down the mission in July, saying the countries had rejected options for a continued presence.
The U.N. withdrew its peacekeepers from Eritrea in February, after Eritrea stopped the mission’s supply of diesel fuel and threatened to shut down its electricity.
Ethiopia Woyanne and Eritrea have yet to resolve their boundary dispute, which spawned a war from 1998 to 2000 that killed some 70,000 people. Both countries have large numbers of troops on the border, although no new hostilities have broken out.
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Woyanne was hoping to keep the leeches aka UN peacekeepers indefinitely to protect their forces from the Eritrean defense forces, the Eritrean government made sure these leeches didn’t overstay their welcome, the border is demarcated, the false claim of Badme by Woyanne has been settled, so there is no need for these leeches to protect Woyanne anymore, Eritrean skillfully kicked them out way back in February, incidentally they were staying in Mekelle in the hopes that they would be able to go back to Eritrean sovereign territory to protect Woyanne, I am certain that since February 08 these leeches have been spending money in Mekelle’s drinking establishments and houses of ill repute thuse helping Woyanne get some the ill gotten hard currency. Not anymore, now Woyanne has to face the truth all by themselves without the help of neo-colonial sponsored UN “peace keepers”. Woyanne is toothless with no bite, they are wetting their pants now and there is nothing to stop more Woyanne troops from defecting to Eritrea and the armed opposition groups. The beginning of the end for Woyanne is within sight and the people of the horn will live in peace forever.
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October 14th, 2008 at 3:55 PM
still bademe is in heroic ethiopian forces as u said if they can retrive it from the ethiopian defence forces try it anbessa mengaga manyawetal sega.just keep quite.eriterians u now what is war .just come to nogotation peacefully.
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October 15th, 2008 at 11:32 AM