A demilitarised border is now thick with troops and bristling with weapons
A deadline for long-time foes Ethiopia and Eritrea to agree their shared border is to expire at midnight.
The date was set a year ago by the Ethiopia-Eritrea Border Commission which was created following a bloody border war between the two countries.
The commission says if it fails to hear anything it will consider the line it has drawn as the official border.
Both sides say they accept its ruling, but neither has moved their troops to their own side of the new boundary.
Some 80,000 people died during the 1998-2000 war.
The United Nations has a peacekeeping force of 1,700 charged with monitoring a security buffer zone.
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