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UNSC lifted sanctions against Eritrea
November 20 , 2018
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- The United Nations Security Council in a unanimous vote on November 14, 2018 agreed to lift the sanctions imposed against Eritrea, after nine years.
- The Security Council had imposed an arms embargo, asset freeze and a travel ban on Eritrea.
Background
- The UN had first imposed restrictions on Eritrea in 2009 after the nation was accused of supporting armed terrorist groups, including Somalia's al-Shabab.
- The resolution, drafted by the UK, was backed by the US and its allies. However, Eritrea has always denied the accusations.
- The UN vote comes amid a thaw in relations between Eritrea and its neighbours following the years of conflict.
- Eritrea agreed on a peace deal with Ethiopia in June 2018 following two decades of animosity.
- While the leader of Eritrea and the UN-backed government in Somalia recently signed a joint cooperation agreement.
- Eritrea gained its independence from Ethiopia in the early 1990s, and war broke out later that decade over a border dispute.
- It is an African nation which is bordered by Sudan in the west, Ethiopia in the south, and Djibouti in the southeast.
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