From: Biniam Tekle (biniamt@dehai.org)
Date: Thu Dec 17 2009 - 11:48:55 EST
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/12/what-should-the-press-cover.html
17 Dec 2009 11:12 am
What Should the Press Cover?
*by Conor Friedersdorf*
Here's one suggestion:
Story: *The Strategic Blunder that is U.S. Policy regarding the
Eritrea-Ethiopia Border*
Written by: *Terrence Lyons*
For a variety of reasons, the U.S., UN, and others dropped the ball big time
in the way it handled the implementation of Algiers Agreement (the peace
agreement reached between Eritrea and Ethiopia following their 1998-2000
border war). *The mishandling of the peace process and the intransigence of
both belligerents has led to a stalemate that has serious implications for
U.S. interests in the Horn of Africa. *Make no mistake, this is THE story
of the region.
In 2006 Lyons wrote a brief (
http://books.google.com/books?id=2O62DrjIeWgC&lpg=PP1&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q=&f=false)
for
the Council on Foreign Relations about the situation, outlining reasonable
steps that all parties could take to resolve the issue. Those
recommendations went largely unheeded, and the situation today is no better,
with Eritrea and Ethiopia essentially continuing their conflict by proxy in
Somalia.
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