The Eritrean-Ethiopian War was a border conflict between two countries that had until recently been allies. Eritrea had become independent from Ethiopia in the early 1990s, but the boundary was poorly defined, and fighting broke out around the town of Badme. The war was fought with large conventional armies, trenches and artillery in a way that recalled the First World War, and tens of thousands of people were killed. The Algiers Agreement of 2000 ended the fighting and a boundary commission in The Hague later awarded Badme to Eritrea. Ethiopia refused to accept the decision for many years, leaving a state of no war and no peace until the two countries signed a peace deal in 2018.
Before and after
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