Travel Guide | January 30, 2003 NEWS 14 Eritrean soldiers killed after trucks hit mines By Our Staff Writer January 30, 2003 BADA, Ethiopia-Eritrea border (JAN 30) – 14 Eritrean soldiers were killed on Tuesday when two army trucks hit anti-personnel mines, an Afar rebel group announced Wednesday. The Afar Revolutionary Democratic Unity Front (ARDUF) said the trucks were transporting arms and ammunition from the Red Sea Port of Massawa to Bada, a disputed border town being monitored by the UN peacekeeping force – UNMEE. Since 1991, ARDUF has been fighting the Meles and Isayas governments for the restoration of Eritrea-annexed Ethiopia’s Red Sea Afar territory, including the Port of Assab. © COPYRIGHT 2002 Ethiomedia.com Email: [email protected]. Back to NewsPage In Defense of the Ethiopian Democratic Party Revisiting Assab: Political Perspectives on Ethiopia’s Natural Sea Outlet
