For official government perspectives on the border dispute, check out the press releases and opinion pieces available on the Eritrean Ministry of Information website and the Ethiopian Ministry of Information, which includes Ethiopia's official position on relations with Eritrea. Both sites have histories, written from their different perspectives.

Another good official source is the United Nations Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea website, which gives a short history of the conflict, as well as facts and general information about the U.N. mission along the border.

A February 2007 report by Chatham House analysts, entitled "Ethiopia and Eritrea: Allergic to Persuasion", examines the differing approaches of Ethiopia and Eritrea to diplomacy and the challenges for the international community in trying to broker a lasting peace.

The International Crisis Group published a useful report in December 2005 examining the tensions in detail. In early November 2007, it issued a policy briefing warning that war could erupt within weeks without a major international push to stop it.

Landmine Monitor is a good source of information on landmines laid during the war in each country, including how much land is affected, how much has been cleared, and the number of fatalities.

For information on refugees and internally displaced people, try the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre, the U.N. refugee agency and the International Committee of the Red Cross.

In July 2005, the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs published a short but useful survey of resettlement in Ethiopia's Tigray region, which borders Eritrea.

For an overview of food aid needs, the World Food Programme site has lots of information about both Ethiopia and Eritrea.