Eritrea says no ceasefire until Ethiopia withdraws

Eritrea, for its part, said the war would go on until Ethiopia had withdrawn all its forces from Eritrean territory. "How can they say the war is over? It is impossible to have a ceasefire before Ethiopia has left all occupied Eritrean territory," Presidential spokesman Yemane Gebremeskel told journalists. An Eritrean foreign ministry statement on Wednesday said the tide of the war had begun to change in its favour. It said that Ethiopia had lost most of its elite divisions in last week's
battle on the Senafe front and had begun to retreat. It said Ethiopian troops continued to occupy areas of western Eritrea, despite its assertion that it had withdrawn.