ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia — Eritrea is hoping that the U.N. Security Council will soon lift sanctions it imposed on the East African nation in 2009, now that its relations have thawed with Ethiopia and other neighbouring countries. The Security Council met privately Monday to hear from its committee monitoring sanctions on Eritrea and Somalia. The Security Council is scheduled to meet Nov. 14 to vote on an Eritrea-Somalia resolution. It had a decades-long border dispute with Ethiopia, including a war from 1998-2000 in which about 80,000 people died. Eritrea has denied providing any support to al-Shabab and has long accused Ethiopia of spearheading and influencing the sanctions against it.

Source: National Post November 05, 2018 20:03 UTC