{"id":273825,"date":"2019-04-23T11:05:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T15:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiW2h0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmFmcmljYW5ld3MuY29tLzIwMTkvMDQvMjMvZXJpdHJlYS1zaHV0cy1hbGwtYm9yZGVycy13aXRoLWV0aGlvcGlhLXVuaWxhdGVyYWxseS_SAQA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-13T11:23:51","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T15:23:51","slug":"eritrea-unilaterally-shut-all-border-crossings-with-ethiopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/273825","title":{"rendered":"Eritrea unilaterally shut all border crossings with Ethiopia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By late April 2019, less than a year after the peace spectacle, Eritrea had shut <strong>all<\/strong> border crossings with Ethiopia, Africanews reported, with the Bure\u2013Assab route the last to close after Serha\u2013Zalambesa and Omhajer\u2013Humera.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-464861\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Assab-port.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Eritrea unilaterally shut all border crossings with Ethiopia\" \/>\n<p>Afar officials said the Assab-Bure closure was only on the Eritrean side. Reuters correspondent Aaron Maasho\u2019s reporting tracked the sequence. Families and traders who had surged across after 2018 suddenly faced sealed gates again.<\/p>\n<p>Abiy Ahmed\u2019s government had sold the Eritrea thaw as historic. Asmara\u2019s unilateral closures showed how little institutional peace existed beneath the airport embraces. Ethiopian Foreign Ministry voices claimed limited information; Eritrea stayed silent as usual.<\/p>\n<p>For Horn geopolitics, the 2019 shutdowns are essential memory. The open-border honeymoon was short, reversible, and controlled from Asmara, while Addis celebrated optics that civilians could not cash at the checkpoint.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africanews.com\/2019\/04\/23\/eritrea-shuts-all-borders-with-ethiopia-unilaterally\/\">Africanews<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/borkena.com\/2019\/04\/22\/eritrea-reportedly-closed-another-border-crossing-with-ethiopia\/\">borkena<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eritrea shuts all borders with Ethiopia \u2013 unilaterally&nbsp;&nbsp;africanewsThe last time a border closure was reported was in December 2018 with the particular crossing point located in the Tigray regional state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":464861,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Assab-port.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-19ex","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273825"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":601062,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273825\/revisions\/601062"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}