Those changes have led to a peace agreement between Eritrea and Ethiopia and the opening of their border to trade. “Don’t write my name,” one panicky Eritrean man says when he saw me jotting down notes. The war ended in a peace agreement but no permanent treaty, and the border tensions continued as Ethiopia refused to accept a UN-brokered border deal. But this year, the historic reforms across the border in Ethiopia have sparked hopes for the future. “The peace deal was a bridge to the future, but it didn’t lead anywhere,” one young man says.

Source: Ethiopian News December 25, 2018 21:26 UTC