Addis Ababa on Monday denied Eritrea’s claims that Ethiopian forces mounted an attack in a contested border region over the weekend.<\/p>\n
Instead, Ethiopia’s Information Minister Getachew Reda said Eritrea sparked the clash by attacking Ethiopia soldiers.<\/p>\n
“Today we have managed to thwart not just the attack, but also to neutralize any threat coming from that direction,” Reda told BBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n Earlier, Eritrean Ministry of Information accused Ethiopia of launching the attack<\/a>.<\/p>\n The clash between Ethiopian and Eritrean troops began on Sunday morning in the Tsorona area.<\/p>\n There are reports that the fighting, which involved heavy artillery, lasted for several hours.<\/p>\n [Photo: A photo of a public area in Tsorona on the Ethiopia-Eritrea border. (Roberto Maldena\/Flickr)]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Addis Ababa on Monday denied Eritrea’s claims that Ethiopian forces mounted an attack in a contested border region over the weekend. Instead, Ethiopia’s Information Minister Getachew Reda said Eritrea sparked the clash by attacking Ethiopia soldiers. “Today we have managed…<\/span> Read more ›<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":10428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[44,2860,1],"tags":[4849],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/14051193766_340ce3600c_z.jpg","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10427"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10427"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10427\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10429,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10427\/revisions\/10429"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}