ERITREA: ETHIOPIA ASKS ORGANISATION OF AFRICAN UNITY (OAU) TO MODIFY ITS PLAN TO END WAR WITH ERITREA AS BOTH SIDES REPORT HEAVY FIGHTING ALONG THEIR BORDER

Record ID: 473423

  • Title: ERITREA: ETHIOPIA ASKS ORGANISATION OF AFRICAN UNITY (OAU) TO MODIFY ITS PLAN TO END WAR WITH ERITREA AS BOTH SIDES REPORT HEAVY FIGHTING ALONG THEIR BORDER
  • Date: 30th May 2000
  • Summary: BETWEEN SENAFE AND ADIKEYHE, (10 KMS FROM BORDER), ERITREA (MAY 30, 2000) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. GENERAL VIEW OF AREA; AUDIO GUNFIRE 0.07 2. MV/SCU/SV/CU: ERITREAN HIGH COMMAND SOLDIERS IN AREA (5 SHOTS) 0.27 3. WS/GV: ARTILLERY FIRING/ SMOKE IN THE DISTANCE (2 SHOTS) 0.40 ASAB, ERITREA (MAY 30, 2000) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 4. LV: SOLDIERS WALKING 0.45 5. VARIOUS OF SOLDIERS AROUND LINE OF CONTROL (4 SHOTS) 1.01 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 14th June 2000 13:00
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  • Location: BETWEEN SENAFE AND ADIKEYHE (10 KMS FROM BORDER), AND ASAB, ERITREA
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  • Country: Eritrea
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  • Reuters ID: LVADKY71WS0PU7CP9K4KB1EZXC6I
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  • Story Text: Ethiopia has said it has asked the Organisation of
    African Unity (OAU) to modify its plan to end the war with
    Eritrea, taking into account its sweeping battlefield gains.

    In Washington, the U.S.government said Eritrea had now
    withdrawn from all the parts of Ethiopia occupied in 1998,
    while Ethiopia had given assurances it would pull out from all
    Eritrean territory once Eritrean forces had left its land.

    However, more fierce fighting was reported by both sides.

    Ethiopia launched a huge ground and air offensive
    against Eritrea more than two weeks ago to recapture territory
    it says had been occupied by its Horn of Africa neighbour
    since their border war broke out in May 1998.

    On Tuesday (May 30) it announced a partial pullout from
    western Eritrea, saying it had accomplished its military
    objectives, but that fighting would continue until Eritrea had
    withdrawn from all "occupied" territory.

    It said Eritrean forces were on the verge of "collapse"
    and had abandoned their positions on the eastern front in
    Bure.

    However the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
    said on Tuesday that Ethiopian forces had captured the western
    town of Tesseney, some 30 km (18 miles) from the border with
    Sudan.It is the furthest the Ethiopians have advanced
    westwards.

    Eritrean presidential spokesman Yemane Gebremeskel said it
    seemed the Ethiopians had captured the town.

    A UNHCR statement said 10,000 Eritreans had crossed into
    Sudan in the last 24 hours.

    Both sides reported heavy fighting along their 1,000-km
    (600-mile) border, with a particularly intense battle reported
    on the central front near Adikeyhe, Eritrea.

    Eritrean field officers said they had turned the tide
    against Addis Ababa.

    On the central front, Ethiopian troops pushed to within
    100 kms (60 miles) of the Eritrean capital, Asmara, at the
    weekend.But a Reuters correspondent in Adikeyhe - which
    appeared on the verge of falling on Sunday - said the
    Eritreans seemed to have regrouped and were now claiming
    advances of their own.


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