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DJIBOUTI/ASMARA-Border clashes between Eritrea and Djibouti killed nine Djiboutian soldiers and wounded 60 others in the first fighting in a decade between the Horn of Africa nations, a defense official said on Thursday.Officials said the fighting between two of Africa's smallest states stopped late on Wednesday. Eritrean and Djiboutian troops had exchanged fire since Tuesday along a part of their border overlooking strategic shipping lanes in the Red Sea.Djibouti hosts French and U.S. military bases and is the main route to the sea for Eritrea's arch-foe and Washington's top regional ally, Ethiopia. France said its military was providing logistical support to Djibouti.Africa's youngest nation, Eritrea, has fractious ties with the West, which accuses it of backing Somali insurgents and expelling U.N. peacekeepers on its border with Ethiopia."The dead and injured are more today, up to nine dead and 60 wounded," a Djiboutian military official said on condition of anonymity.Officials said the fighting had stopped on Wednesday night.There was no independent verification of events from the remote border area.
Without confirming or denying the clashes, Eritrea has dismissed Djibouti's versions as "concocted animosity."
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