It is the season of EAC former presidents to broker peace deals
Former Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta (left) shakes hands with the Burundi President Evariste Ndayishimiye in Bujumbura on November 4, 2022 after talks on the current security situation in eastern DRC. PHOTO | TCHANDROU NITANGA | AFP
A peace deal was reached Wednesday in the Ethiopian civil war, with both sides agreeing to end two years of fighting in drawn-out talks between the two sides in South Africa.
It was heavy lifting. It took many African heavyweights to get the Ethiopian government and Tigray rebels to agree to silence their guns — for now, at least.