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The Eritrean–Ethiopian War, [a] also known as the Badme War, [b] was a major armed conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea that took place from May 1998 to June 2000. After Eritrea gained independence from Ethiopia in 1993, relations were initially friendly.
The Eritrean–Ethiopian border conflict was a violent standoff and a proxy conflict between Eritrea and Ethiopia lasting from 1998 to 2018. It consisted of a series of incidents along the then-disputed border; including the Eritrean–Ethiopian War of 1998–2000 and the subsequent Second Afar insurgency. [8]
Relations between Eritrea and Ethiopia have been historically adversarial. [1] Eritrea gained independence from Ethiopia in 1993 after the Eritrean War of Independence, after which relations were cordial. Since independence Eritrea's relationship with Ethiopia was entirely political, especially in the resuscitation and expansion of IGAD's scope
The bitter border conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea, once a single nation, played out far from the global spotlight. ... It was a war that killed some 80,000 people and sputtered to life again ...
After the 20-year border conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea, a decade of internal tensions, two years of protests, and a state of emergency, Hailemariam Desalegn resigned on 15 February 2018 as prime minister and EPRDF chairman, and there were hopes of peace under his successor Abiy Ahmed. [41]
The Tigray war [b] was an armed conflict that lasted from 3 November 2020 [a] to 3 November 2022. [44] [45] It was a civil war [46] that was primarily fought in the Tigray Region of Ethiopia between forces allied to the Ethiopian federal government and Eritrea on one side, and the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) on the other.
After a series of armed incidents in which several Eritrean officials were killed near Badme, [4] on 6 May 1998, [5] a large Eritrean mechanized force entered the Badme region along the border of Eritrea and Ethiopia's northern Tigray Region, resulting in a firefight between the Eritrean soldiers and a Tigrayan militia and the Ethiopian police they encountered.
13 May 1998 – In what Eritrean radio described as a "total war" policy, Ethiopia mobilized its forces for a full assault against Eritrea. [2] 5 June 1998 – the Eritrean air force attacked an elementary school in Mekelle that killed 49 of the students and their parents and the neighbors that came to help immediately. [3]