Horn of Africa rivals sign deal pact
13 December: Ethiopia and Eritrea signed a peace treaty in Algiers yesterday, ending their two-year border war which has claimed 100,000 lives and displaced more than a million people on the Horn of Africa.
Eitrea's history
Find out about the birth of Eritrea and the background to the conflict with Ethiopia in our interactive guide.
Peace and sense in sight
5 June: Even the optimists would hardly dare to pronounce the world's most senseless war finally to be over.
Ethiopia says war with Eritrea is over
1 June: Ethiopia yesterday declared that it considers its two-year-old border war with Eritrea to be over after retaking all the land it had claimed in a punishing 19-day offensive.
Real hope in ending the Eritrea-Ethopia bloodbath
30 May, 5.15pm: Hours after Addis Ababa announced a partial withdrawal from Eritrean territory, peace talks in Algiers hope to bring the two-year border war to an end
Ethiopian planes bomb Eritrean capital as refugee crisis grows
30 May: The Ethiopian government made a mockery of diplomatic efforts to settle its border war with Eritrea yesterday by carrying out air raids on the Eritrean capital Asmara just as delegates from both sides were due to begin peace talks in Algeria.
'Lapsed' Jews pray for exodus
12 April: Israel's interior minister Natan Sharansky is in Ethiopia, holding out hope for thousands of its dispossessed and suffering citizens. But these are not famine victims. They are the so-called Falash Mura, descendants of local Jews who converted to Christianity and now want to embrace Judaism again as their ticket to Israel.
The Falash Mura issue
11 April: Derek Brown, former Guardian correspondent in Jerusalem, reports on the uncertain welcome in Israel for the dispossessed descendants of Jews who converted to Christianity.
Cutting aid to Ethiopia
11 April: Clare Short, the international development secretary, has hit back at those who have criticised her department for cutting aid to Ethiopia at a time when it faces famine. Mark Tran examines how much Britain is giving to the beleaguered African nation.
