UN ends Eritrea-Ethiopia peacekeeping mission
By JOHN HEILPRIN – July 30, 2008
UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council voted Wednesday to end an 8-year-long peacekeeping mission between Eritrea and Ethiopia despite continuing tensions, a move that the United Nations’ chief has warned could lead to a new war.
Council members voted unanimously to withdraw the remaining [...]

Bridge of the Horns
The Peninsula/By RABIN GUPTA  7/30/2008
  
DJIBOUTI • The $200bn Al Noor Cities, a project which will comprise one city in Yemen and another in Djibouti was launched on Monday at the Djibouti Palace Kempinski Hotel. The project will be completed over a 15 year-time-frame and the first five years will create 60,000 new [...]

UN mulls African peace missions

The UN has already withdrawn most of its peacekeepers from Eritrea

The UN Security Council is to consider a draft resolution from Belgium to end the UN mission monitoring the disputed border between Ethiopia and Eritrea.
The mandate for the UN’s 1,700-strong peacekeeping force ends on Thursday.
Observers fear that if it [...]