The unresolved border issue compounds other pressing problems. These include Eritrea's inability to provide enough food; two thirds of the population receives food aid. Moreover, economic progress is hampered by the proportion of Eritreans who are in the army rather than the workforce. This clearly implies that the very fundamental question is whether Eritrea is a viable state to feed its citizens without any good and friendly political and economic relations with its immediate neighbour, Ethiopia.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-13349078

This is the only post shabos failed to comment on.qiqiqiqi land of plenty where food is
shabos do not shy
we know you
do you guys eat 2 times a week?

This is nothing more than MI6 trying to save their budget where severe slashing is pending, MI6 sexed up the intelligence report to facilitate the invasion of Iraq at the cost of many lives to the British society, and BBC was a conduit to the lie, just like they are doing against another country they thought they can harm and nothing would get back to them. Eritrea is advancing without the approval of the Brits who are about to be swallowed by the most powerful economy next door, EU. Although, we use EU for short, but it is actually Germany. British made world is slowly changing before their eyes, the public has accepted that reality, its only the government that is having a hard time to chew that reality, because they lied to their public for so long telling "everything is okay," while it is not. Soon the Brits will be speaking German, its time for them to practice how to talk like Germans without spiting.

The unresolved border issue compounds other pressing problems. These include Eritrea's inability to provide enough food; two thirds of the population receives food aid. Moreover, economic progress is hampered by the proportion of Eritreans who are in the army rather than the workforce. This clearly implies that the very fundamental question is whether Eritrea is a viable state to feed its citizens without any good and friendly political and economic relations with its immediate neighbour, Ethiopia.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-13349078

At a glance

Politics: The government has been accused of repression and of hindering the development of democracy

Economy: Eritrea is said to be on the brink of a mining boom; it is heavily dependent on earnings of the diaspora

International: Eritrea and Ethiopia remain in dispute after their 1998-2000 border war; in 2009 the UN imposed sanctions on Eritrea after accusing it of backing anti-Ethiopian Islamist insurgents in Somalia

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The unresolved border issue compounds other pressing problems. These include Eritrea's inability to provide enough food; two thirds of the population receive food aid. Moreover, economic progress is hampered by the proportion of Eritreans who are in the army rather than the workforce.

AL-LIEBA IS PROUD OF THIS? From the same BBC-shite!

Ethiopia profileOverview
Facts
Leaders
Media
Timeline
Ethiopia is Africa's oldest independent country and its second largest in terms of population. Apart from a five-year occupation by Mussolini's Italy, it has never been colonised.

It has a unique cultural heritage, being the home of the Ethiopian Orthdodox Church and a monarchy that ended only in the coup of 1974.

It served as a symbol of African independence throughout the colonial period, and was a founder member of the United Nations and the African base for many international organisations.

Continue reading the main story
At a glance

Politics: Prime Minister Meles Zenawi won a fourth term in elections held in May 2010. Secessionist groups maintain a low-level armed struggle
Economy: One of fastest growing non-oil economies in Africa. Depends heavily on agriculture, which is often affected by drought. Coffee is a key export
International: Eritrea hived off in 1993 and a border dispute escalated into full-scale war in 1999. Border tensions persist. Ethiopian troops helped oust Islamists who controlled southern Somalia in 2006. Ethiopia is seen as a key US ally
Country profiles compiled by BBC Monitoring
Ethiopia has suffered periodic droughts and famines that lead to a long civil conflict in the 20th centiry and a border war with Eritrea.

In the first part of the 20th century Ethiopia forged strong links with Britain, whose troops helped evict the Italians in 1941 and put Emperor Haile Selassie back on his throne. From the 1960s British influence gave way to that of the US, which in turn was supplanted by the Soviet Union.

Drought

Although it has had fewer of the coups that have plagued other African countries, Ethiopia's turmoil has been no less devastating. Drought, famine, war and ill-conceived policies brought millions to the brink of starvation in the 1970s and 1980s.

In 1974 this helped topple Haile Selassie. His regime was replaced by a self-proclaimed Marxist junta led by Mengistu Haile Mariam under which many thousands of opponents were purged or killed, property was confiscated and defence spending spiralled.

The overthrow of the junta in 1991 saw political and economic conditions stabilise, to the extent that the country is regarded as one of Africa's most stable.

Continue reading the main story
Rebel threat
Ogaden National Liberation Front - ONLF

Separatist group in Ogaden region, home of ethnic Somalis
Aims to defend rights of Ogadeni people, defend resources from exploitation by state
Has conducted low-level guerilla campaign since 1994
2007 attack on oilfield killed 65 Ethiopian troops and 9 Chinese workers
Eritrea
Eritrea gained independence in 1993 following a referendum. Poor border demarcation developed into military conflict and full-scale war in the late 1990s in which tens of thousands of people were killed.

A fragile truce has held, but the UN says ongoing disputes over the demarcation of the border threaten peace.

Ethiopia is one of Africa's poorest states. Almost two-thirds of its people are illiterate. The economy revolves around agriculture, which in turn relies on rainfall. The country is one of Africa's leading coffee producers.

Many Ethiopians depend on food aid from abroad. In 2004 the government began a drive to move more than two million people away from the arid highlands of the east in an attempt to provide a lasting solution to food shortages.


Drought-prone and short of food, Ethiopia has suffered a series of famines in recent decades At the end of 2006 Ethiopia sent between 5,000 and 10,000 troops into Somalia to support forces of the weak transitional government there and helped to oust the Islamists who had controlled southern Somalia for six months.

But, despite initial successes, the Ethiopians were unable to break the power of the Islamists, who gradually began to win back lost territory.

Ethiopia's presence in Somalia formally ended in early 2009, when it pulled its troops under an agreement between the transitional Somali government and moderate Islamists

A chronology of key events:

300-600 - Eritrea part of the Ethiopian kingdom of Aksum.

600 - Arabs introduce Islam to coastal areas.

1500s - Ottoman Empire annexes Eritrea.
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The BBC the representative of the British government information source tells us their best understanding of what Eritrean history is. Read the first line, there was no country back in the axum kingdom, but they assume it was Ethiopian kingdom. I give them that, for they do not know what they are talking about, but they wouldn't shut up. If you listen to their reports, it usually fails to capture the actual scenario right from the beginning. Thanks for Al-Jazeera, it is there to correct them, like the British Empire passing the battons of international order guard to the US, BBC is passing on the international body of politics to Al-Jazeera.

AL-LIEBA IS PROUD OF THIS? From the same BBC-shite!

Ethiopia profileOverview
Facts
Leaders
Media
Timeline
Ethiopia is Africa's oldest independent country and its second largest in terms of population. Apart from a five-year occupation by Mussolini's Italy, it has never been colonised.

It has a unique cultural heritage, being the home of the Ethiopian Orthdodox Church and a monarchy that ended only in the coup of 1974.

It served as a symbol of African independence throughout the colonial period, and was a founder member of the United Nations and the African base for many international organisations.

Continue reading the main story
At a glance

Politics: Prime Minister Meles Zenawi won a fourth term in elections held in May 2010. Secessionist groups maintain a low-level armed struggle
Economy: One of fastest growing non-oil economies in Africa. Depends heavily on agriculture, which is often affected by drought. Coffee is a key export
International: Eritrea hived off in 1993 and a border dispute escalated into full-scale war in 1999. Border tensions persist. Ethiopian troops helped oust Islamists who controlled southern Somalia in 2006. Ethiopia is seen as a key US ally
Country profiles compiled by BBC Monitoring
Ethiopia has suffered periodic droughts and famines that lead to a long civil conflict in the 20th centiry and a border war with Eritrea.

In the first part of the 20th century Ethiopia forged strong links with Britain, whose troops helped evict the Italians in 1941 and put Emperor Haile Selassie back on his throne. From the 1960s British influence gave way to that of the US, which in turn was supplanted by the Soviet Union.

Drought

Although it has had fewer of the coups that have plagued other African countries, Ethiopia's turmoil has been no less devastating. Drought, famine, war and ill-conceived policies brought millions to the brink of starvation in the 1970s and 1980s.

In 1974 this helped topple Haile Selassie. His regime was replaced by a self-proclaimed Marxist junta led by Mengistu Haile Mariam under which many thousands of opponents were purged or killed, property was confiscated and defence spending spiralled.

The overthrow of the junta in 1991 saw political and economic conditions stabilise, to the extent that the country is regarded as one of Africa's most stable.

Continue reading the main story
Rebel threat
Ogaden National Liberation Front - ONLF

Separatist group in Ogaden region, home of ethnic Somalis
Aims to defend rights of Ogadeni people, defend resources from exploitation by state
Has conducted low-level guerilla campaign since 1994
2007 attack on oilfield killed 65 Ethiopian troops and 9 Chinese workers
Eritrea
Eritrea gained independence in 1993 following a referendum. Poor border demarcation developed into military conflict and full-scale war in the late 1990s in which tens of thousands of people were killed.

A fragile truce has held, but the UN says ongoing disputes over the demarcation of the border threaten peace.

Ethiopia is one of Africa's poorest states. Almost two-thirds of its people are illiterate. The economy revolves around agriculture, which in turn relies on rainfall. The country is one of Africa's leading coffee producers.

Many Ethiopians depend on food aid from abroad. In 2004 the government began a drive to move more than two million people away from the arid highlands of the east in an attempt to provide a lasting solution to food shortages.


Drought-prone and short of food, Ethiopia has suffered a series of famines in recent decades At the end of 2006 Ethiopia sent between 5,000 and 10,000 troops into Somalia to support forces of the weak transitional government there and helped to oust the Islamists who had controlled southern Somalia for six months.

But, despite initial successes, the Ethiopians were unable to break the power of the Islamists, who gradually began to win back lost territory.

Ethiopia's presence in Somalia formally ended in early 2009, when it pulled its troops under an agreement between the transitional Somali government and moderate Islamists