[3] In 2000, Eritrea and Ethiopia signed the Algiers Agreement (2000) which forwarded the border dispute to a The Hague boundary commission.

In the Agreement both parties agreed in advance to comply with the ruling of the Border Commission.

According to the Eritrean Information Ministry, Ethiopian Forces crossed the border early on New Years Day 2010, and engaged in a fierce battle with Eritrean troops before quickly withdrawing back over the border, after having 10 soldiers killed and 2 taken prisoner.

Ethiopian government spokesman Bereket Simon denied that any armed incursion had taken place.

[4] Kuwaiti Prime Minister Sheikh Nasser Mohammed Al-Ahmed Al-Sabah announced in July 2009, during a 3-day visit to Ethiopia, that his country would provide a $63 million loan to Ethiopia, part of which would be used to build a road between Wukro and Zalambessa.