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Eritrea and Ethiopia to re-establish diplomatic ties
Eritrea and Ethiopia are to re-establish diplomatic and trade ties after long years of hostility.
- BBC
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and Eritrean President Isaia Afwerki made the announcement during a landmark meeting in the latter’s capital Asmara.
It is the first time the leaders from the two East African neighbours have met in almost 20 years.
Relations were severed following a border dispute which killed tens of thousands of people in the late 1990s.
A peace deal was signed in December 2000. However, Ethiopia refused to accept the final ruling of a…