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ERITREA: GOVERNMENT CRITICIZES US ON BORDER ROW January 29, 2006
Apunyu Bonny
(SomaliNet) Eritrea’s Information Ministry published an editorial accusing Washington of siding with Eritrea's neighbour, ten days after a U.S. mediator said she had been barred from traveling to the border where a 1998-2000 war cost 70,000 lives.
In the recent months tensions along the 1,000-km border have increased sparking fears of a resumption of hostilities.
"The current extremely saddening and dangerous situation is the outcome of the erroneous U.S. foreign policy," said the article, published on the ministry's Web site late on Friday.
Eritrea, 10 times smaller than Ethiopia and with 20 times fewer people, is angry that world powers have failed to use their considerable leverage with aid-dependent Ethiopia to push it to honour the peace treaty that ended the two-year war.