In 2019, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed won the Nobel Peace Prize for his willingness to accept arbitration awarding Badme to Eritrea. In reality, the supposed peace was a devil’s bargain.

Britain's minister for Africa is in Eritrea to try to encourage Ethiopia to accept the designated border, and the two countries to begin demarcation.

Addressing a press conference at Bandra on Wednesday, Shelar said, "The Shiv Sena slogan till 2019 was "Pehle Mandir badme Sarkar" but this has now changed to "Pehle Madiralay badme Mandir".

Then Abiy agreed to hand over Badme. He and his Eritrean counterpart signed a joint declaration, officially ending the war, once and for all.

In May 1998, Asmara and Addis Ababa went to war over the disputed town of Badme, a conflict that would be marked by trench warfare and large-scale pitched battles.

IT STARTED AS a border skirmish in 1998, between Ethiopian policemen and Eritrean soldiers in Badme, a small village on a barren mountain. One observer at the time likened it to “two bald men ...

There has also been no progress on demarcating disputed border areas, particularly around the town of Badme, which the Eritrea-Ethiopia Boundary Commission (EEBC), established to resolve the ...

As part of a peace agreement brokered in Algiers, in 2000, a commission cited colonial-era documents to rule that the land around Badme was part of Eritrea.

More importantly in June 2018, only three months after he took office, Abiy Ahmed announced that Ethiopia would acknowledge the border commission’s decision over Badme.

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed wins Nobel Peace Prize He helped resolve a long conflict in his country, and he’s started serious — if imperfect — reforms.