{"id":25111,"date":"2026-01-15T13:51:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T13:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/25111\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T13:51:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T13:51:08","slug":"ethiopia-and-eritrea-on-brink-of-conflict-as-accusations-fly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/25111\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia and Eritrea on Brink of Conflict as Accusations Fly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Ethiopian police announced the seizure of ammunition reportedly sent by Eritrea to rebels in Ethiopia&#8217;s Amhara region, stoking tensions between the two countries. Eritrea quickly dismissed the claim as a fabrication by Ethiopia to justify war.<\/p>\n<p>The recent developments further strain relations that have soured since the 2018 peace deal between the longtime adversaries. The Ethiopian federal police&#8217;s Wednesday statement detailed the capture of 56,000 rounds and the arrest of two suspects in the region embroiled in insurgency since 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Eritrea&#8217;s Information Minister Yemane Gebremeskel accused Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed&#8217;s government of seeking a pretext for conflict. Meanwhile, Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki maintains that while his nation shuns war, it remains ready to defend itself if necessary.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>(With inputs from agencies.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Ethiopian police announced the seizure of ammunition reportedly sent by Eritrea to rebels in Ethiopia&#8217;s Amhara region,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25112,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[11592,665,1165,1983,65,2830,15475,7894,7144,1993],"class_list":{"0":"post-25111","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ethiopia","8":"tag-amhara","9":"tag-ammunition","10":"tag-conflict","11":"tag-eritrea","12":"tag-ethiopia","13":"tag-peace","14":"tag-rebels","15":"tag-relations","16":"tag-tensions","17":"tag-war"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25111\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}