Haile Abadi Naizgi v. Alberto R. Gonzales, Attorney General

Petition for review denied in part and granted in part; vacated in part and remanded by published opinion. Judge GREGORY wrote the opinion, in which Judge WILLIAMS and Judge FLOYD joined.

OPINION

GREGORY, Circuit Judge:

Haile Abadi Naizgi (“Naizgi”), an Ethiopian citizen of Eritrean ethnicity, petitions for review of the final decision of the Board of Immigration Appeals (“BIA”) denying him asylum. For the following reasons, we deny in part and grant in part his petition for review and remand for further proceedings.

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In May 1998, a border dispute between Ethiopia and its former province,…