Temperature on Both Sides Of Eritrea- Ethiopia Border

In the Horn of Africa, a border row between Eritrea and Ethiopia has been rumbling for months, with whispers of a possible new conflict between the neighbours, who last went towar between 1998-2000. Earlier this month, the United Nations said the border remained tense.
The following two stories take the temperature on both sidesof the disputed border.
ZALAMBESSA, Ethiopia - It's hard to tell which stones are the rubble of war and which are the ingredients of reconstruction in the frontier town of Zalambessa. In 1998, Eritrea's soldiers invaded and destroyed this town on the disputed border with Ethiopia at the start of a two-year war in which 70,000 people were killed.
Now, six years after a peace pact, Zalambessa's 12,000 people are rebuilding, stone by stone. But the hope that drives them is tainted by the fear of another war and memories of pain.
"We have to survive with what we have now, and we are feeling the threat of war," businessman Hailu Zerafa, 70, said.
MASSAWA, Eritrea - Mohamed Idris and Ibrahim Mohamed wheel through the humid backstreets of Eritrea's Red Sea port town of Massawa, past buildings still scarred by the shooting and shelling of battle.
The two men were shot respectively in Eritrea's 30-year fight for independence from Ethiopia and the subsequent 1998-2000 border war, and have been in wheelchairs ever since.
The veterans have travelled to Massawa, a town spread out across the mainland and two islands, for the bittersweet commemoration of Operation Fenkel -- the 1990 liberation of the port during the independence war.
"We feel happy and very proud," said Mohamed, 28. "On the other hand, we feel sad because many people died," added Idris, 33.

Source: Basque News and Information Channel
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