It is also laughable to hear the Yilmas of the world deny the existence of Eritrea as an independent sovereign state. These Chauvinist barking dogs could not even organize and mobilize their own Amhara people, who live mainly in Shoa, Gojjam, Gondar, Wollo and Addis Ababa, to remove the minority regime that is shitting on them from the palace of their King – Menelik. They don’t have the courage to do that and yet the have the time to write articles demonizing Eritrea, from their hiding places around the world. One thing thing we Eritreans want these Chauvinists to know is that the good old days of the Shoan Amhara rule is over. Now all the ethnic groups in Ethiopia are very much aware of their rights and would not allow the come back of these Chauvinists to power even if Woyanes were to leave power tomorrow. The future belongs to the Oromos, other oppressed ethnic groups in Ethiopia and Amharas who accept that Ethiopia should be a democratic country where the will of the MAJORITY WOULD BE SUPREME and that Ethiopians would live in peace with their neighbors, including Eritreans.

THE ONLY WAY OUT FOR ALL THE STATES IN THE HORN OF AFRICA IS ‘PEACEFUL COEXISTENCE’- NO MORE NO LESS.

“creating enmity with our Somali brethren. The no war no peace situation with Eritrea is costing a lot of money in troop deployment along the so-called border.”

I guess some people will never learn. If you are for peace then you cannot be selective about it. Not recognizing the Eritro/Ethiopian border is effectively an invitation to instability and war. I guess some ( sometimes I feel too many) Ethiopians will never learn, will call for war at any cost, will willingly pay with their brothers life as long as it gets back some piece of Eritrea. Ohhhhhh how I wish they were the ones paying with their lives in the war then they might give peace (and respect) a value closer to the inherent one.

We Eritreans are TIRED and FED-UP of wars with Ethiopia. How difficult is that to understand. We wish you well but leave us ALONE.

Peace.

Ethiopia — the region’s military powerhouse — has sent thousands of troops to support Somalia’s U.N.-backed government, which has failed to assert control over the country. The decision adds urgency to the Somali government’s long-standing request for international peacekeepers to deploy here.

“Regardless of what happens, we have decided to withdraw our troops from Somalia at the end of year,” Ethiopian Foreign Ministry spokesman Wahide Bellay said Friday in a telephone interview from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf has asked for a U.N. peacekeeping force to replace a small African Union force that has largely been confined to its bases in the capital because of the violence. AU peacekeepers have struggled to maintain security, with only 2,600 of the mission’s approved 8,000 troops on the ground.

The U.N. Security Council has said that, if Somalia can improve security and political reconciliation, it would consider sending U.N. peacekeepers to replace AU forces.

On Friday, Wahide urged the international community to send peacekeepers, but said Ethiopia would not wait any longer for such a force to be assembled.

Rashid Abdi, a Somalia analyst at the International Crisis Group think tank, said the Ethiopians may have decided to seal the border with troops and air power.

“They can … continue to make military incursions across the border without troops on the ground who will be open to attack,” he said.

Somalia’s transitional government was formed in 2004, but then lost control of the capital, Mogadishu, and most of the south to Islamic militants. In December 2006, it called in troops from neighboring Ethiopia to help retake control. But the insurgency remains a disruptive force and a threat to Yusuf’s government.

A worsening humanitarian crisis has been fueled by drought and high food prices.

Ethiopia is a key U.S. ally and the Pentagon sent a small number of Special Operations troops with the Ethiopian forces in 2006. In early 2007 the U.S. conducted several airstrikes in an attempt to kill suspected al-Qaida members.

Ethiopia is a traditional rival of overwhelmingly Muslim Somalia. It has large Christian and Muslim populations as well as one of Africa’s largest armies, which many Somalis see as abusive and heavy-handed. Al-Shabab, which means “the Youth,” mounts almost daily mortar attacks, suicide bombings and ambushes.