Old Eritrean trench lines west of Assab. Note the rock huts and rock sangars that have been built ...

Old Eritrean trench lines west of Assab. Note the rock huts and rock sangars that have been built up due to the harshness of the terrain. The United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) was set up by the Security Council to liaise between Ethiopian and Eritrean parties and establish a mechanism for verifying the temporary ceasefire which was signed in June 2000 following two years of fighting as a result of a border dispute. In September 2000, the Council authorised the deployment of up to 4,200 military personnel to monitor the cessation of hostilities and to help ensure the observance of security commitments, and in December the two countries signed a comprehensive ceasefire agreement. More than 20 countries were involved in UNMEE and more than 2,000 troops, observers, civilians and UN volunteers remain in 2007.

• Members of the Eritrean media walking down a dirt road in the Temporary Security Zone (TSZ) which ...
• Post 41, halfway between Assab, Eritrea and the Ethiopian border, which was occupied by B ...
• A partially uncovered Soviet landmine at Post 4, part of the United Nations Mission in Ethiopia ...
• A Soviet landmine at Post 4, part of the United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE). ...
• Informal portrait of 552337 Major Stuart Brown, a member of the Australian Army serving with the ...
• Informal portrait of two members of the United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) ...
• Human remains from the Eritrean/Ethiopian conflict. Neither country would claim responsibility ...
• The giant sandals sculpture on a roundabout in Shida Square in Asmara. These shida (the Arabic ...
• White United Nations (UN) vehicles parked at the United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea ...