Badme

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Badme
Badme (Eritrea)
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Coordinates 14 ° 43 '  N , 37 ° 48'  E Coordinates: 14 ° 43 '  N , 37 ° 48'  E
Basic data
Country Eritrea

province

Gash-Barka
ISO 3166-2 ER-GB
Residents 1563 (2005)

Badme ( Ethiopian script : ባድመ Badmä , Arabic بادمة) is a city in the Yirga Triangle area and was the focus of a regional dispute between Eritrea and Ethiopia . It was claimed both by Eritrea as part of the Gash-Barka region and (until 2018) by Ethiopia as part of the Mirabawi zone of the Tigray region . This conflict triggered the Eritrea-Ethiopia war from 1998 to 2000.

The Central Statistical Agency of Ethiopia (CSA) According lived in 2005 a total of 1,563 people in Badme, including 834 men and 729 women. For 1994 the CSA counted 892 inhabitants, of which 734 Tigray , an Amharen and 157 Eritrean citizens. Information from the Eritrean side could not yet be found.

history

The border between the two countries was laid down in a treaty between Ethiopia and Italy in 1902 . At that time, Eritrea was part of Italian East Africa and was an Italian colony ( Colonia Eritrea ). However, the border around Badme was poorly defined at the time. Since the independence of Eritrea in 1993, the two states have been arguing about its exact course. In November 1977, the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) - which has ruled Ethiopia since 1991 as part of the EPRDF coalition - handed Badme over to the Eritrean People's Liberation Front (EPLF), which now rules Eritrea as the Popular Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ).

In 2000, Eritrea and Ethiopia signed the Algiers Agreement , in which they put the border conflict in the hands of a Hague Border Commission. Both parties agreed to follow the instructions of the Commission. The commission set the border in 2002 and in the process hit Badme Eritrea. However, many of the residents of Badme still see themselves as Ethiopian citizens.

The Sudan Tribune reported that Badme residents signed up for the Ethiopian elections in January 2005. However, these reports were put into perspective by other reports that Ethiopia relocated hundreds of citizens to Badme during the negotiations in The Hague .

Current situation

Despite the original agreement to comply with the provisions of the Algiers Agreement, Ethiopia refused to withdraw to the new border set by the Border Commission until June 2018, thereby rejecting its decision. As a result, thousands of displaced people found themselves in refugee camps. The danger of another war also persisted.

On June 5, 2018, the Ethiopian government declared that it was ready to accept the provisions of the 2002 border agreement and to implement them. This also includes the handover of Badme to Eritrea.

Other disputed areas along the border between Eritrea and Ethiopia were Tsorona and Zalambessa and Bure . A peace treaty was signed between the two countries on July 9, 2018 .

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  1. ↑ a b CSA 2005 Table B.4 ( Memento from October 8, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ↑ Central Statistics Agency: 1994 Population and Housing Census of Ethiopia: Results for Tigray Region, Vol. 1 (PDF; 87.4 MB), 1995 (p. 75)
  3. ↑ Daniel Kendie: The Five Dimensions of the Eritrean Conflict 1941-2004: Deciphering the Geo-Political Puzzle . Signature Book Printing, 2005, ISBN 1-932433-47-3 .
  4. ^ Badme: Village in no man's land. April 22, 2002, accessed August 31, 2006 .
  5. ↑ http://www.sudantribune.com/article.php3?id_article=7668 ( Memento from February 16, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ Border commission urges Ethiopia to remove new settlers from Eritrean land. July 17, 2002, accessed November 9, 2006 .
  7. ↑ Ethiopia 'accepts peace deal' to end Eritrea border war. BBC News, June 5, 2018, accessed June 6, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Ethiopia and Eritrea make peace. Time online from July 9, 2018

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