Badme

Ethiopia

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Badme is a town that was at the center of a border dispute between Ethiopia and Eritrea. In 1998, tensions over this approximately 250-square-mile area, along with other locations, escalated into war. A cease-fire was signed in June 2000, leading to a UN mission to monitor the truce and a buffer zone while the border was demarcated. A peace agreement in December 2000 ended the conflict, but relations remained tense. The 2002 border demarcation awarded Badme to Eritrea, a decision Ethiopia protested. UNMEE troops remained until July 2008, but the demarcation issue remained unsettled.12

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…centred around the hamlet of Badme, exploded into violence. Following two years of bloodshed, a peace was negotiated in December 2000, and the UN established a peacekeeping mission along the border in question. An international boundary commission agreed on a border demarcation in 2002, but Ethiopia rejected the decision and…
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…centred around the hamlet of Badme, exploded into violence. Following two years of bloodshed, a peace was negotiated in December 2000, and the UN established a peacekeeping mission along the border in question. An international boundary commission agreed on a border demarcation in 2002, but Ethiopia rejected the decision and…
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