The European Union, EU, has announced a €20 million programme to build roads linking Eritrea’s port cities and the Ethiopian border, a top official announced today. It will rehabilitate road connections between the Ethiopian border and Eritrean ports to boost trade and create jobs. BackgroundIn July last year, Eritrea and Ethiopia signed an historic peace agreement ending 20 years of conflict. One of the commitments of the peace agreement is that ‘transport, trade and communications links between the two countries will resume’. To achieve this requires rehabilitating the main arterial roads between the Ethiopian border and the Eritrean port of Massawa, which is the focus of this road project.

Source: Ethiopian News February 08, 2019 17:03 UTC