African Studies
Utafiti: Journal of African Perspectives
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The country's autocratic political system persisted, while its economic performance weakened further and a hunger crisis loomed. The Warsay-Yikealo Development Campaign, which forces hundreds of thousands of national service recruits to work without pay for unspecified periods, continued. The human rights record remained extremely worrying. The EU Commission nevertheless made a grant to the government of $ 122 m for the period 2009–13. Eritrea's border conflict with Ethiopia was not solved. In December, the UN Security Council imposed targeted sanctions on Eritrea because of its alleged military involvement in Somalia and its refusal to enter into negotiations with Djibouti over the unresolved border conflict.