Eritrea: Spoiler Exacerbates Crisis in the Horn of Africa and Beyond J.Peter Pham, PhD. One of the frustrations with which Africa's friends have had to repeatedly cope over the years has been the seemingly utter incapacity of the African .... to armed force on May 12, 1998 and the immediately following days to attack and occupy the town of Badme, then under peaceful administration” by Ethiopia – left at least 100000 dead and cost untold billions of dollars in damages. ...
