Saturday, 21/07/2018 09:15 (GMT+7)
Ethiopia has appointed its first ambassador to Eritrea in two decades.
Mr. Redwan Hussein (Photo: AFP/VNA)
Accordingly, Redwan Hussien, formerly Ethiopian ambassador to Ireland, is appointed as the ambassador to Asmara, Eritrea.
"Redwan Hussein has been appointed as Ethiopia's ambassador to Eritrea, the first for 20 years", the Ethiopian Foreign Ministry said.
According to Ethiopia's state-affiliated Fana Broadcasting Corporate, Hussein will work on strengthening relations between the two nations on the Horn of Africa.
Earlier this month, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed paid a two-day state visit to Eritrea.
During the visit, the Prime Minister and Eritrea's President Isaias Afwerki signed an agreement in Asmara on July 9th to restore ties and have since taken steps to put it into practice, including reopening embassies in each others countries.
Ethiopia and Eritrea expelled each others' envoys at the start of a 1998-2000 border war.
The war, one of the conflicts in the Horn of Africa, killed around 80,000 people. The two of the world’s poorest countries spent hundreds of millions of dollars on the war and suffered tens of thousands of casualties as a direct consequence of the conflict./.
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