Current Prime Minister of Ethiopia Abiy Ahmed in offering to make peace with neighbouring Eritrea had done what his predecessors, the late Meles Zenawi and Hailemariam Desalegn had done before. An Ethiopian journalist, Samson Berhane, who found his long lost father in Eritrean capital Asmara after the peace deal was signed said to him Abiy’s first peace offer (April 2, 2018) was nothing different from that of Meles and Desalegn. If there is a day I felt optimist about the peace, it was when the telephone service between the two countries resumed. The long serving late Prime Minister Meles Zenawi and former Premier Hailemariam Desalegn pledged to normalize the relation between the two countries, but no to avail. A lot has happened since Abiy and Afwerki signed the peace deal in Asmara on July 9, 2018.

Source: Ethiopian News September 03, 2018 13:18 UTC