Why are they fighting? Ethiopia and Eritrea.(two of the world's poorest countries are fighting over a small barren mountain area)(Brief Article)

From: The Economist (US) | Date: June 13, 1998 | Copyright information

''TWO bald men fighting over a comb'' was how one observer described the sudden eruption of war between Eritrea and Ethiopia. They are, per head of population, the two poorest countries in the world, bar Mozambique. Yet they are fighting for a few square miles of barren mountain where a few thousand souls barely scratch a living. The whole border is now a battle zone, and the two countries are on war footing.

Minor tank and artillery battles broke out in early May. The ostensible reason was that each government accused the other of incursions across the poorly marked common ...

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