Nigeria, which played a scoreless tie on a high-school field at Eritrea on April 9, advanced with a 4-0 vintory in Lagos.
But if the EU and individual states jump too rashly and simply throw money at Eritrea, they risk entrenching the very practices that lie behind much of the exodus, while doing precious little to stem it.
The UN has accused a Canadian company of using forced labour at Eritrea's only active mine in a hard-hitting report released in June.
In addition to Egypt, where 91 percent of women 15 to 49 have undergone the practice, countries with the highest percentages of women who have been cut include Somalia, at 98 percent; Guinea, at 96 percent; Djibouti, at 93 percent; Eritrea and Mali, at 89 percent; and Sierra Leone and Sudan, at 88 percent.
In the early afternoon, four Ethiopian MiGs bombed the airport at Asmara, Eritrea's capital.
At first, Eritrea kept its options open by seeking clarification on nearly 40 points, but in February, after its defeat at Badme, Eritrea also formally accepted it.However, the OAU, either through incompetence or through an attempt at creative ambiguity, has given the two governments different interpretations of its own plan.
Eritrea, at number three on the list, is dubbed "the North Korea of Africa".
Martin Patzelt, a CDU MP, attracted national headlines after temporarily taking in two refugees from Eritrea at his home in Brandenburg.
There are four mines being developed in Eritrea at present, but just one is currently exporting minerals.
But the group preserved its core fighting force — estimated by the United Nations Monitoring Group on Somalia and Eritrea at 5,000 — and avoided direct confrontations.
At the time, Eritrea, which gained freedom from Ethiopia five years earlier after three decades of guerrilla warfare, moved into what Ethiopians considered their territory.
