‘Regional proxy contest’: What’s fuelling Ethiopia-Eritrea tensions?

Eritrea and Ethiopia, two neighbouring countries in the Horn of Africa, have a long history of conflict in a region of growing strategic importance due to its proximity to the Red Sea and the Bab al Mandab Strait, a vital global maritime chokepoint.Eritrea’s three-decade war of independence from Ethiopia, fought between 1961 and 1991, resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths on both sides. Unresolved border disputes later triggered another war between the two countries…