November 9, 2007 (LPAC)--Ethiopian troops in Mogadishu, backing Somalia's shaky Transitional Federal Government (TFG), were engaged today in heavy fighting with the insurgents ostensibly seeking to uproot the TFG. The clash killed at least 40 Somalis.

The eruption of violence in Mogadishu coincides with a recent report of the International Crisis Group (ICG), warning the international community that the "Great Game" between Eritrea and Ethiopia has brought the Horn of Africa to the verge of a war. ICG believes the war could break out as early as within a couple of weeks, qualifying its observation by claiming both Eritrea and Ethiopia are ruled by narrow elites, which take all major decisions in secrecy, making it difficult to be precise in predicting events.

The ICG warning is based upon an alarming level of military build-up on both sides along their common border over the past few months. The war situation has developed because of the virtual breakdown of the Algiers agreement which had stopped the war in 2000.

Ethiopia claims an encroachment by Eritrean troops into the Temporary Security Zone (TSZ), demarcated in the Algiers agreement. Ethiopia announced on September 25 that it was considering terminating the Algiers agreement. In reply, Eritrea accused Ethiopia of repeated violations of that peace treaty and has called upon the UN Security Council to enforce the decision on Boundary dispute.  This sounds like British-orchestrated social control.  Who would want to sabotage peace right now more than the British Empire?  Dignified newspapers must look for and expose the British hand, rather than report on this as simple "terrorism."