Ethiopian and Eritrean forces stationed along the border will be moved back to camps to ease tensions further, Ethiopian prime minister Abiy Ahmed said. “We heralded the new year by demolishing the trenches along our border,” Mr Abiy told reporters, referring to the fact that Ethiopian new year was celebrated on Tuesday. “As of today, Ethiopia’s defence forces [along the border with Eritrea] will be gathered to camps and ease tension that was often extreme. Thousands of people from both countries watched one border opening ceremony in Zalambessa, an Ethiopian border town that was reduced to rubble soon after hostilities between the neighbours started in 1998. The two leaders also celebrated Ethiopian new year together at the border with their troops on Tuesday, Mr Abiy’s chief of staff, Fitsum Arega, said.

Source: Ethiopian News September 11, 2018 20:03 UTC