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It started as an amicable separation that wound up in a bloody two year border war which ended in 2000.
The war in Ethiopa and Eritrea claimed an estimated 80,000 lives making even poorer two of the world's poorest countries.
Now an international tribunal in the Hague has ordered both countries to pay damages to each other but the ruling has left Eritrea with 10 million dollars more to pay.
So what is Eritrea's reaction to the ruling?
That is the question Paul Bakibinga put to the country's Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Tesfamicael Gerahtu.
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