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 ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) - Isolated, authoritarian Eritrea often gets blamed for tensions along its border with Ethiopia, with whom it fought a war devastating to both desperately poor countries.
But Ethiopia could do more to avert a new war — and to live up to its reputation as a reform-minded nation poised to break the African mold of strife, dictatorship and poverty.
The deadlock grew out of Ethiopia's refusal to accept an international ruling on the location of its border made in 2002, two years after the end of a 2 1/2-year war that killed 70,000 people and cost each country an estimated $1 million a day.
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