Ethiopia and Eritrea reopen their embassies

Since the beginning of the war in May 1998, Eritrea and Ethiopia have a more or less closed border – thousands of Eritrean refugees have left the country closed every month – and diplomatic relations have been frozen. But after Sunday's historic trip, when the Ethiopian Prime Minister went to Asmara, the capital of Eritrea, to meet his colleague, President Isaias Afewerki, the situation has improved significantly .

Sunday night Reuters reports that the leaders of a public bank have announced by the Eritrean government that they should resume their respective embassies as soon as possible.

Restoring relationships is an important step towards normalized relations and a future peace agreement. can mark a point for the war that has totaled 80,000 lives and, in the long run, has generated one of the largest flows of refugees and migrants to Europe.

More importantly, the news is that Ethiopia, which has not had its own coastline since the independence of Eritrea, should be able to dispose of the port of & Assab in the south of Eritrea.

Thus, Ethiopia acquires a negotiating space against Djibouti, which currently has the only available port for Ethiopian trade. With mutual dependence between Ethiopia and Eritrea, the likelihood of peace increases, because it is precisely the trade that the first disputes took place before disputes between countries provoked a regular war .

Abiy took it [le19avril2009] on April 2 and already announced in his installation that he wanted to revive the conversation with the Eritreans. Since then, the first peace strike has been followed by an increasingly positive rhetoric and this week, Eritrea sent a delegation to Addis Ababa. This meeting was followed Sunday of the summit between the two leaders. When Abiy landed in Asmara, the streets were lined by thousands of Eritreans who hosted the country's Ethiopian leader.