ERITREA SEEKS ‘FUTURE OF PEACE’ WITH ETHIOPIA

ERITREA said this week that it looked foward to a “future of peace and hope” with Ethiopia after both countries formally ended more than two years of war. On December 12 in Algiers, Eritrean President Issaias Afeworki and Ethiopian Prime Minister Meles Zenawi signed a comprehensive peace accord to end a conflict that erupted on the neighbours’ common border in May 1998. The Algiers accord lays out the framework for future talks on the demarcation of the ill-defined frontier and on issues such as compensation and prisoners of war. – AFP