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Eritrean President Afwerki to visit Ethiopia

Friday July 13 2018
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Eritrean President Isaias Afeworki inspect the guard of honour during visit in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, on June 11, 2015. The President will visit Ethiopia on July 14, 2018. AFP PHOTO | ASHRAF SHAZLY

By REUTERS

Eritrean President Isaias Afeworki will visit Ethiopia on Saturday, Eritrea’s information minister Yemane Meskel said on Friday, days after the two neighbours declared their “state of war” over.

The visit comes a week after Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed visited Eritrea and signed a pact on resuming ties with Isaias.

Under the historic deal, the Horn of Africa neighbours agreed to open embassies, develop ports and resume flights, in concrete signs of rapprochement away two decades of hostility since war erupted over their disputed border in 1998.

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