The Eritrean ethiopian war was started by higidef because they had conflict over trade thus Eseyas was angry then he run as fast as possible to open the war. Ethiopia at that time asked eritrea to change in terms of dollars but eseyas refused them. Instead he asked that the two countries currency had to be exchanged in equal rate and this was refused by the Ethiopian government. So that the conflict started as Eseyas started the United nations made Eritrea to pay the compensation but the Eritrean government does tell this.