Curious case of Eritrea/Afar and Ethiopia

[cow]

Why did Ethiopia allow Afar region of Eritrea to join Eritrea during it's independence from Ethiopia? why did they not insist on Afar being part of Ethiopia. i Just don't get it.

 

[James Dahl]

in 1991 when the Derg were defeated, the Eritreans were the leader of the rebel movements so they could dictate terms. There is a weird consensus among western powers that the borders of Africa cannot be changed, so that's why Eritrea "re-declared" independence, since technically it had been independent and that independence was abrogated by Haile Selassie.

 

[Gardy]

No new bonderies formed here, eritrea was an independent country before it united with ethiopia around 1950's and they just reclaimed their independence again in 1993 with their colonial borders