Summary Reports continue to emerge that Asmara and Addis Ababa are arming competing factions in Somalia in order to create a third front that could break the deadlock on the Ethiopian-Eritrean battle front. While both sides deny the charges, the consistency and redundancy of the reports and the logic of the presumed underlying strategy suggests that Somalia may soon emerge as a third front in the war — or at least as a new source of chaos in its own right. Analysis According to the April 3 edition of the Mogadishu daily Xog- Ogaal, a truckload of ammunition arrived in Mogadishu on April 1 from the town of Beled Weyne near the Ethiopian border. The ammunition was allegedly part of a 40 metric ton shipment supplied to warlord Hussein Haji Bod by Ethiopia.