(August 6 2011,(Daily Nation))--Three events in quick succession have forced Eritrea to go on the defensive with its envoy in Nairobi declaring, “we have never been the bad boy”.
Despite the firm declaration of innocence by Asmara, the recent report by the UN Security Monitoring Group and assertions by leaders of the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (Igad) provided ammunition for warring Eritrea and Ethiopia to renew their rivalry.
The two have escalated the row, with Asmara stating that the government of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi was behind the smear campaign while Ethiopia has countered by asking its neighbour to own up and behave. Kenya finds itself the battleground as the two protagonists fire salvos at each other. That Asmara has been boxed into a corner is not in doubt.
Security measures
President Mwai Kibaki, as the chairman of Igad, set the ball rolling when he told his counterparts in the region to enhance security measures to curb the increasing destabilisation activities associated with Eritrea.
Even before Asmara could fully digest this information, the UN Security Monitoring Group unleashed a much harsher assessment of the country’s complicity with armed groups in Somalia, Djibouti and Ethiopia.
The UN report published “documentary evidence of Eritrean payments to a number of individuals with links to al Shabaab” through its embassy in Nairobi. Read more from Daily Nation »
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Despite the firm declaration of innocence by Asmara, the recent report by the UN Security Monitoring Group and assertions by leaders of the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (Igad) provided ammunition for warring Eritrea and Ethiopia to renew their rivalry.
The two have escalated the row, with Asmara stating that the government of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi was behind the smear campaign while Ethiopia has countered by asking its neighbour to own up and behave. Kenya finds itself the battleground as the two protagonists fire salvos at each other. That Asmara has been boxed into a corner is not in doubt.
Security measures
President Mwai Kibaki, as the chairman of Igad, set the ball rolling when he told his counterparts in the region to enhance security measures to curb the increasing destabilisation activities associated with Eritrea.
Even before Asmara could fully digest this information, the UN Security Monitoring Group unleashed a much harsher assessment of the country’s complicity with armed groups in Somalia, Djibouti and Ethiopia.
The UN report published “documentary evidence of Eritrean payments to a number of individuals with links to al Shabaab” through its embassy in Nairobi. Read more from Daily Nation »
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