{"id":52382,"date":"2025-11-23T08:51:50","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T08:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=52382"},"modified":"2025-11-23T08:51:55","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T08:51:55","slug":"escalating-war-of-words-between-ethiopia-and-eritrea-triggers-fears-of-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/?p=52382","title":{"rendered":"Escalating war of words between Ethiopia and Eritrea triggers fears of conflict"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BBC:   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Landlocked Ethiopia&#8217;s calls for access to the Red Sea through Eritrea has triggered a fierce war of words.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed first openly declared in 2023 that his nation&#8217;s access to the sea was an existential matter, comments that Eritrea dismissed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Five years later, a border war erupted in which more than 100,000 people died.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BBC: 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&#8217;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&#8217;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&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52383,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-in-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52382"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52382\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52384,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52382\/revisions\/52384"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/52383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gyalchisarshog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}