The Eritrean–Ethiopian border conflict was a violent standoff and a proxy conflict between Eritrea and Ethiopia lasting from 1998 to 2018. It consisted of a series of incidents along the then-disputed
Abyssinian soldiers in 1936 during the Second Italo-Ethiopian War.
United Nations soldiers, part of the United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea, monitoring Eritrea–Ethiopia boundary (2005).
Relations between Eritrea and Ethiopia have been historically adversarial. Eritrea gained independence from Ethiopia in 1993 after the Eritrean War of Independence, after which relations were cordial.
Abiy Ahmed and Isaias Afwerki speaking in Eritrea (2019)