{{IGIHE has reliably learnt that Ethiopian troops have launched attacks inside Eritrea accusing their suspicious neighbour of training “subversive groups” that were planning to carry out attacks inside Ethiopia.}} <\/p>\n
The two countries have had fragile relations which fought a border war from 1998 to 2000.The two countries signed a peace treaty but tensions between them have remained high ever since.<\/p>\n
Several Eritreans have reportedly been killed in the attacks and others captured during the attack on three camps.<\/p>\n
Eritrea has remained non committal to the incidence.<\/p>\n
The attack was launched Thursday night and it is the first attack by Ethiopian troops inside Eritrean territory since the end of the war, in which some 80,000 people died.<\/p>\n
Ethiopia accuses its neighbor of backing Ethiopian rebels who staged a January raid in the northern Afar region that killed five Western tourists.<\/p>\n
Ethiopian government spokesman Shimeles Kemal said Eritrea is harbouring “hit-and-run terrorists”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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