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Eritrea in no position to attack Djibouti: minister 
Djibouti (HAN) June 30th, 2008  - Djibouti's foreign minister said on Sunday he did not believe Eritrea was in a position to attack his country over its Djibouti-Eritrean Border Plan, while the Djibouti military general announced plans to prepare border security watch positions for an Eritrean enemy soldier's movement.

The comments were the latest in an escalating war of words between the arch-foes that have helped regional speculation of a possible Eritrean attack on Djibouti, the world's poorest countries on earth, helping Eritrean plights to the highest peak.

Speculation has risen since a HAN & Geeska Afrika Online reported, a two months ago that, Eritrea had practiced a border skirmish against the Afar liberation bases, which the Eritrean regime suspects a form of covert Ethiopian plan to attack Assab port from the Djibouti side border. Djibouti government denies those roamers.

Djibouti Foreign Minister Mahamoud Ali Yourself, said Eritrea was still dealing with the consequences of its 1998 war with Ethiopia and was also suffering a crisis of deepening illegitimacy in the Horn of Africa and the East Africa region. "That's why we do not see the Eritrean leadership in a situation in which they would want to engage in such adventurism against Djibouti," he said when asked about the possibility of an Eritrean border attack.


The Eritrea Ethiopia dispute is part of a set of regional tensions that extends into Somalia, where Ethiopian troops are supporting an interim government, and into Djibouti, whose forces clashed with Eritrean troops earlier this month. "The Eritrean regime knows full well what the consequences of such a nasty act would be," Yourself, told reporters.

The African Union officially condemned Eritrea on Sunday for taking military action against Djibouti near a strategic Red Sea shipping route. "The African Peace and Security Council strongly condemns Eritrean regime for its military action against Djibouti border and the African PSC requests it to pull out from the occupied Djibouti land," a senior AU official HAN Reporter In Cairo, Egypt.
The new volatile border between Eritrea and Ethiopia: UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon warned that the withdrawal of UN-MEE could spark renewed conflict on the 1,000 km frontier. Therefore, the U.N. Security Council considered on Monday a plan to disband its peacekeeping mission.

The Geeska Afrika Magazine Sources:  HAN staff in Cairo

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