Ethiopia, Eritrea to hold peace summit in Saudi Arabia: UNUNITED NATIONS: Ethiopia and Eritrea will attend a summit in Saudi Arabia on Sunday to sign an agreement cementing the thaw between the two former Horn of Africa enemies, a UN spokesman said Friday. On Tuesday, the leaders of Ethiopia and Eritrea reopened two land border crossing points for the first time in 20 years, clearing the way for trade between the two nations. Ethiopia´s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and Eritrea´s President Isaias Afwerki signed a declaration of peace in July that formally ended two decades of hostility. Eritrea gained its independence from Ethiopia in the early 1990s, and war broke out later that decade over a border dispute. A 2002 UN-backed boundary demarcation was meant to settle the dispute for good, but Ethiopia refused to abide by it.

Source: Ethiopian News September 14, 2018 16:41 UTC