After years of bad blood, Ethiopia is taking steps to mend fences and reach an agreement on its shared border with Eritrea. On June 5, Ethiopia's ruling party, the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front, opted to accept an agreement that would give Badme, a town on the border, to Eritrea. If Ethiopia follows through, the move could help settle some of the differences between the two archrivals on the Horn of Africa . After a miscalculation by Eritrea's leadership in 1998, the area around Badme became synonymous with death for both sides. Eritrea suffered particularly heavy losses there. When the fighting concluded, the two sides signed the Algiers agreement of 2000, which was supposed to, among other things, settle the disputes over the border and the symbolically important town of Badme.