Peace process 'under stress' - Horn of Africa

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Asmara - The UN envoy to Ethiopia and Eritrea warned on Thursday that the peace process between the Horn of Africa neighbours, who went to war between 1998 and 2000, faced major problems.

"The peace process right now is under severe stress," Legwaila Joseph Legwaila, UN Secretary General Kofi Annan's representative, told a news conference in Asmara.

"We are hoping and at the same time we are doing everything we possibly can, all of us, the UN, the African Union, the European Union and the USA," he said.

By now, a key element of the peace process, the marking of the border between the two countries, should have been well under way.

But Ethiopia has rejected the ruling of the neutral commission that defined the precise path of the border, insisting that it, Ethiopia, not Eritrea, should have been given the town of Badme, where the last war began in 1998.

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