{"id":275530,"date":"2019-02-04T04:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?guid=6a44c294d35993d70b0b9b7fa0aee0aa"},"modified":"2026-09-10T11:37:26","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T15:37:26","slug":"badme-residents-voice-concern-as-border-handover-to-eritrea-approaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/275530","title":{"rendered":"Badme residents voice concern as border handover to Eritrea approaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In February 2019, residents of <strong>Badme<\/strong>\u2014the flashpoint town at the heart of the Ethiopia\u2013Eritrea border ruling\u2014told Deutsche Welle they feared the human cost of implementing territorial handover even as leaders celebrated peace.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-220710\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Badme-map.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Badme residents voice concern as border handover to Eritrea approaches\" \/><\/p>\n\n<p>Many locals were veterans or families who had lived with the war\u2019s aftermath; legal title on maps and lived community on the ground were not the same thing. The EEBC decision awarding Badme to Eritrea had been a core Ethiopian grievance for years.<\/p>\n<p>The report remains useful reference for the unfinished business of the 2018 thaw: peace declarations do not automatically settle displacement, identity documents, or who administers a town that symbolized the entire conflict.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/residents-of-badme-voice-concern-over-handover-to-eritrea\/a-47351100\">Deutsche Welle<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/pca-cpa.org\/en\/cases\/71\/\">EEBC background<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents of Badwe voice concern over handover to Eritrea&nbsp;&nbsp;Deutsche WelleResidents of Badme, many of them veterans of the conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea, worry the town will soon officially become Eritrean now that Ethiopian &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":220710,"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-275530","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\/2018\/06\/Badme-map.jpg?fit=846%2C593&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-19G2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275530","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=275530"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":599930,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275530\/revisions\/599930"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}