ABSTRACT
The 1998-2000 border war between Ethiopia and Eritrea, a former Ethiopian province, would see two of Africa’s poorest nations spend millions of dollars in military expenditures to fight one another. It would end with tens of thousands of people dead and hundreds of thousands more displaced and homeless. The war exacerbated economic and social crises originally caused by the thirty-year guerrilla war (1963-1993) that culminated in Eritrean independence. That struggle was Africa’s longest war in the twentieth century.
