Ethiopia: The Tale of Eritrean Withdrawal From Tigray - but Where Is the Border?

15 April 2021
opinion

During a session in parliament on March 23, 2021 Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed of Ethiopia publicly acknowledged Eritrean involvement in his country's ongoing civil war in Tigray but indicated that it would take some time for Eritrea's forces to withdraw. Three days later, the Prime Minister issued a statement announcing that the government of Eritrea had "agreed to withdraw its forces out of the Ethiopian border" and that the Ethiopian army "will take over guarding the border area effective immediately". This begrudging admission - after four months of unconvincing denial - that Eritrea was in fact waging war inside Ethiopia was, in large measure, a result of sustained pressure from the European Union and the Biden Administration in the United States. However, the announcement raises several important questions, one of which has been at the heart of the Ethiopia-Eritrea conflict all along and could determine its conclusion or continuation.

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