By ELIAS MESERET, Associated PressADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Ethiopian military officials on Friday announced they are moving troops away from the border with Eritrea, months after the former rivals made a surprising peace. Ethiopia and Eritrea ended two decades of border tensions related to a bloody 1998-2000 conflict and re-established diplomatic ties this year, opening border points and communications links. Aid groups and others have said several thousand people have crossed into Ethiopia from Eritrea since then, some of them settling in northern villages. Some former Tigrayan officials who until recently dominated top posts in the government had resisted making peace with Eritrea under previous administrations. Ethiopian military officials maintain that the country, Africa's second most populous, has one of the largest armies on the continent.

Source: Ethiopian News December 14, 2018 08:03 UTC