ASMARA (HALBEEG)- The prime minister of Ethiopia and the president of Eritrea Abiy Ahmed and Isaias Afwerki respectively paid visit to their troops at the border of the two countries to celebrate the Ethiopian New Year.
The two leaders visited Bure region that has been a center of most of the clashes that occurred between the two countries during 1998-2000 which claimed the lives of 800,000 people from both sides.
“PM Abiy Ahmed and President Isaias Afwerki are visiting Bure Front along Ethio-Eritrea border to celebrate the New Year with members of the Ethiopian & Eritrean Defense Forces following the full normalization of the relations between the two countries. #Ethiopia #Eritrea,” Fitsum Arega, Abiy’s Chief of Staff, said on Twitter.
Giving a keynote speech on Monday evening, PM Abiy Ahmed said the soldiers of his county at the border and Eritrea troops will celebrate the Ethiopia’s new year joint in an effort to build up the normalized relations between the two countries for more two decades.
Ethiopia and Eritrea have agreed to bury the hatchet and re-open their embassies and borders to end two decades of conflicts between the two neighbors.
Ethiopia and Eritrea broke off relations at the start of a 1998-2000 border conflict that claimed 80 000 lives.
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