More insanity in the Horn of Africa

Remember the moronic, disastrous border war of the late 90s between Ethiopia and Eritrea? The war that cost some 70,000 lives and displaced hundreds of thousands, all over a worthless sliver of land called Badme?

Apparently the idiots who run Ethiopia and Eritrea feel that the 70,000 dead was too few, as both regimes are engaging in a massive troop buildup near the disputed border, which is patrolled by UN peacekeepers.

Ethiopia has not withdrawn its troops from land awarded to Eritrea by an international demarcation commission, notes the BBC.

UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan called on both sides to "exercise maximum restraint and to immediately halt any action that might be misinterpreted by the other side."

The US and European Union need to put diplomatic pressure on the Ethiopian regime to abide by the international commission's decision and withdraw from the area, before another wasted war over nothing land explodes.

(For more on the history of the border dispute, click here)