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MID#4401
Dispute Number: 4401
Date(s): December 5, 2008 to September 20, 2010
Participants: 530 Ethiopia/520 Somalia
Outcome (and Settlement): Unclear (None)
Fatalities: None
Narrative: This dispute describes almost two years of incidents initiated by Ethiopia
as it sought Islamist rebels based in Somalia. Ethiopia shelled Mogadishu, the Somali
capital, and occupied several parts of Somalia with troops and armored vehicles. The
last incident was March 20, 2010, so the dispute ends with a six-month count follow-
ing the occupation of territory by Ethiopia.
520 Somalia/552 Zimbabwe
MID#1324
Started in October 1966. See the narrative in the 490 Democratic Republic of the
Congo/552 Zimbabwe dyad dispute list.
522 Djibouti/531 Eritrea
MID#4082
Dispute Number: 4082
Date(s): December 1995 to April 1996
Participants: 531 Eritrea/522 Djibouti
Outcome (and Settlement): Unclear (None)
Fatalities: None
Narrative: Two short incidents occurred in December 1995 and April 1996 as
Eritrean forces exercised claims over a small piece of territory in northern Djibouti.
The first incident was an incursion by ground forces, and the second incident involved
Eritrean forces shelling a border post.
MID#4187
Dispute Number: 4187
Date(s): June 1998 to December 1998
Participants: 522 Djibouti/531 Eritrea
Outcome (and Settlement): Unclear (None)
Fatalities: None
Narrative: This dispute describes two collateral incidents between Eritrea and Dji-
bouti during the former’s war with Ethiopia. Djibouti was sympathetic with Ethiopia
and fortified their border in June 1998 to dissuade Eritrean forces from using their ter-
ritory to strike Ethiopia. Eritrea then massed troops on the Djibouti border in Novem-
ber over worries that landlocked Ethiopia was using Djibouti port facilities.