The newspapers also stated that Egypt was using Eritrea to pressures Ethiopia. And some reckless Egyptian quarters would not mind using Eritrea as a pawn and agitate for a confrontation between Ethiopia and Eritrea citing the border war between the two countries. That is because Ethiopia has already accused Egypt of sponsoring Ethiopian groups involved in the recent unrest that engulfed the country. Throughout the period of the recent unrest in Ethiopia, Egyptian news media covered the sensational Ethiopian unrest with great zeal, regularly hosting Ethiopian dissidents. Eritrea is considered a Nile riparian country though it contributes only around .01% of the water that flows to Egypt.

Source: Ethiopian News December 05, 2016 09:14 UTC