
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


Relations between Eritrea and Ethiopia have historically been difficult. Eritrea won independence from Ethiopia in 1993 after a 30-year war. A bitter border war between the two countries began a few years later. But by 2020, Eritrea sent troops to fight alongside the Ethiopian government against rebel forces in its northern Tigray region.
Kalkidan Yibeltal is a BBC correspondent in Addis Ababa. He explains the complex history between the two countries, and looks at the tentative peace now emerging in Tigray.
Presenter: Claire Graham
By BBC World Service4.5
2323 ratings
Relations between Eritrea and Ethiopia have historically been difficult. Eritrea won independence from Ethiopia in 1993 after a 30-year war. A bitter border war between the two countries began a few years later. But by 2020, Eritrea sent troops to fight alongside the Ethiopian government against rebel forces in its northern Tigray region.
Kalkidan Yibeltal is a BBC correspondent in Addis Ababa. He explains the complex history between the two countries, and looks at the tentative peace now emerging in Tigray.
Presenter: Claire Graham

7,639 Listeners

375 Listeners

519 Listeners

876 Listeners

1,046 Listeners

293 Listeners

1,799 Listeners

964 Listeners

358 Listeners

407 Listeners

731 Listeners

50 Listeners

849 Listeners

58 Listeners

386 Listeners