Leaders of Ethiopia and Eritrea to Meet Soon, Ministry Says

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  • Abiy, Isaias to hold landmark talks ‘soon,’ official says
  • Horn of Africa nations have been bitter foes for 20 years
Osman Saleh Mohammed, Eritreas foreign minister, center, walks with Abiy Ahmed, Ethiopias prime minister, left, as an Eritrean delegation for peace talks with Ethiopia arrives at the international airport in Addis Ababa on June 26, 2018.Photographer: Yonas Tadesse/AFP/Getty Images

The leaders of Ethiopia and Eritrea will meet soon, Ethiopia’s Foreign Ministry said, the latest sign of thawing relations between the Horn of Africa nations at odds since a border war two decades ago.

A meeting between Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki would cap landmark talks that began this month between officials from the two countries that fought a 1998-2000 war in which about 100,000 people died. Eritrea seceded from Ethiopia in 1993 after decades of conflict.Markets

Ethiopia Says Airline to Resume Eritrea Flights by September

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  • Airline stopped flights during border war two decades ago
  • Ethiopia’s new premier is normalizing relations with neighbor

Ethiopian Airlines Enterprise will reintroduce flights to Eritrea by mid-September, two decades after a border conflict upended relations between the Horn of Africa neighbors.

“Ethiopian Airlines get ready because soon you’ll start going to Eritrea and coming back,” Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said at a state dinner for a visiting Eritrean delegation in the capital, Addis Ababa. “Let us not transfer to our children hatred and the holding of grudges.”

Source     –   BloombergEthiopia,

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