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What follows is a brief guide to understanding the conflict, the new peace, and what to expect going forward. Mahmood, a researcher at the Institute for Security Studies in Addis Ababa, told me that the resolution of the dispute between the two countries “goes a long way to resolving one of the major conflict fault lines within the Horn of Africa.” The peace agreement is also good news for the region. “But the speed with which is ending - it’s shocking. “It’s long, long, long overdue,” Bronwyn Bruton, deputy Africa director for the Atlantic Council think tank in Washington, DC, told me. The United Nations hailed the move as a “new wind of hope” in Africa. The two embraced on the airport tarmac, and later released a joint statement declaring that the war had ended and “a new era of peace and friendship has been opened.”Įthiopians and Eritreans responded with joy to the news that one of the continent’s longest ongoing conflicts had come to an end. Then in early July, he traveled to Eritrea’s capital, Asmara, to meet with Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki. In June, he said Ethiopia would accept a disputed border decision at the root of the current conflict.

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It’s the latest positive step in a series of shocking moves that signal a new peace between the two countries, which have spent the past two decades mired in conflict.Īnd it’s all happening at a breakneck speed.Įthiopia’s young new prime minister, Abiy Ahmed, has played the starring role in healing the rift between the neighboring countries. On July 21, Eritrea appointed an ambassador to Ethiopia - the first one in 20 years.