Eritrea/Ethiopia: Eritrea, Ethiopia move troops, tanks, says UN source

Former foes Ethiopia and Eritrea have both moved troops and tanks towards the border in recent weeks, a UN source said on Wednesday, after the world body reported that the situation on the frontier had become tense. A UN statement said on Tuesday UN peacekeepers had altered their description of the situation on the ground to "tense" from "stable", a worrying change to diplomats trying to prevent a resumption of the nations' 1998-2000 war. "We cannot say that the situation is stable," the source at the peacekeeping U.N. Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea (UNMEE) said on Wednesday, when asked about the change in language.