Ethiopia ready for dialogue to resolve border row with Eritrea

The new administration in the USA is not going to be short of advice on Somalia or on Ethiopia and Eritrea. It has, indeed, been deluged with it from all sorts of people ranging [from] serious minded scholars to cranks and former officials looking for preferment once again. One such body, which has never been short of advice to give to President Bush, has already started to proffer it to the next administration is Enough, a project of the NGO [Non-Governmental Organization] the Centre for American Progress whose aims are an end of genocide and crimes against humanity. It focuses on crises in Africa, originally in Sudan, and then on Chad, eastern Congo, northern Uganda, Somalia and Zimbabwe.
We cannot comment here on all of the issues covered by the authors (John Prendergast and John Norris), but their misleading assumptions and biased conclusions over Somalia and the role the authors claim for the Ethiopia-Eritrea dispute certainly need correction if the paper is to be of any use to the next president. Any suggestion that "the standoff between [Eritrea and Ethiopia] has helped fuel conflict ...[ellipsis as published] further destabilizing Somalia" is seriously mistaken. It is Eritrea's proven track record of being a regional "spoiler" attempting to destabilize our whole region. It is an established fact that since its independence in 1993, Eritrea has managed to launch wars against virtually all of its neighbours, including Yemen, Ethiopia and Djibouti, and also threatened to use force to bring about regime change in Sudan. more...http://www.individual.com/story.php?story=94976005