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[MINILIK SALSAWI]

There are growing concerns over the possibility of armed conflict between Horn of Africa neighbours, Ethiopia and Eritrea, as hostile rhetoric has ratcheted up in recent weeks.

Landlocked Ethiopia's calls for access to the Red Sea through Eritrea has triggered a fierce war of words.

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed first openly declared in 2023 that his nation's access to the sea was an existential matter, comments that Eritrea dismissed.

Relations between the two countries have frequently been strained. After a decades-long battle for independence, Eritrea, which has a 1,350km (840-mile) Red Sea coastline, officially seceded from Ethiopia in 1993, leaving it landlocked.

Five years later, a border war erupted in which more than 100,000 people died. Read Full Article : https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cvgwg042vr4o