France 24 we should be ashamed of your French government what the are your bases still doing in Africa please tell me. After the Second World War all the European countries left the African countries gave them their freedom which they once controlled but France didn’t want to give up its spoils instead it created a defence pact in the country called dijubito . This war between Eritrea and Djibouti is not new it was created by France and Italy
Disagreement over this boundary section led to similar incidents in 1996 and 1998. The Djibouti-Eritrea boundary was first delimited in a 1900 Franco-Italian treaty. The northeast section was defined from the northernmost tip of Ras Doumeira on the Red Sea coast, through the watershed along the peninsula for approximately 1.5 km and then along a straight line towards the southwest to Bissidiro on the banks of Oued Weima. Unless undertaken recently, this boundary section has never been demarcated officially on the ground. The exact position of the land boundary terminus at Ras Doumeira would be critical when the two states come to negotiate their maritime boundary in the Red Sea.

The status of Doumeira island, located just off shore from Ras Doumeira, also remains in question. The 1900 treaty specified that until France and Italy could decide by agreement who held sovereignty over the island, it would remain effectively held under joint sovereignty by both states and neither side would attempt any sovereign acts. The two colonial powers signed an agreement in January 1935 that would have adjusted the northeast land boundary section and allocated Doumeira island to Italian-ruled Eritrea. However, the agreement was never ratified by France and it is presumed that the 1900 treaty still applies.

France very murky history with Africa but I’m sure people can Google it up and you as a French news website now it and that’s why you lost out on the Olympic games cause of your murky history in Africa.

I just cant stop loughing, They call u jornalist or propoganda machine,Eritreans and Djibouti ppl lived for thousands of years as brothers n sisters, n now what is these BS propoganda,or lie or whichever comes first, these is total lie the same lie about WMD in iraq, France should act as a big brother between both nations not instigator, leave africa issue to africans ,let them find their own solution to their problem. The problem in DRC is foreighn problem, cause foreighners stick their nose where it doesnot belong as usual. I am hoping a french person will read this, Poor mama africa eor how long r u going to get raped by criminals, hope one day there will be solution to all the mess created by some evil nations.

Djiboutian commanders seem ready to fight but their soldiers are dragging their feet?!
The moral of the commanders seems 100%. But are they the once who fight the real fight?????????
where are the foot soldiers by the way no one interviewed ... in this case the reporter did a lousy job of reporting (propagating war).

Eritrea is the most stable nation in the region and since the neo-cons are losing the war in the horn of Africa they will cook up a new "FAKE WAR" against Eritrea and create un-neccesary "FAKE WAR". The use of France 24 and other media outlets to destbilize nations will no longer work in this information technology age. So France 24 stop spreading propoganda instead "show us the pudding! France 24 if you are a true news organization and claim to have an exclusive on the Djibouti side, where are the Eritrean deserters you claim?
Stop spreading false rumors.