Eritrea: Acceptance of "mistaken" ruling on war

Eritrea will accept an international ruling that blamed it for starting a 1998-2000 border war with Ethiopia, despite dismissing the decision as a mistake, a senior legal adviser said on Monday (January 2). The commission at the Permanent Court of Arbitration said last month Eritrea violated international law with an attack on Ethiopia in 1998 that sparked the war in which 70,000 people were killed.