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After long years of hostility, Eritrea and Ethiopia are set to re-establish diplomatic and trade ties.
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 in almost 20 years the leaders from the two East African neighbours have met . Relations between the two countries were severed following a border dispute which killed tens of thousands of people in the late 1990s. The leaders also announced they would re-open their embassies. The meeting was the first of its kind between the leaders of the two neighbours and bitter rivals in the Horn of Africa, who went to war with each other and broke off diplomatic relations in 1998.
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