Eritrea, Ethiopia: declining pace of bilateral engagement
- October 17, 2019
- - 8:23 pm
Summary The Eritrean government was unimpressed that Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed was the sole recipient for the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize. Regardless, initiatives to restore geopolitical cooperation between Ethiopia and Eritrea were frequent and multidimensional over the course of 2018, but largely absent in 2019. Analysis The Eritrean government was none too impressed that Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed was the sole recipient for the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize, believing the prize should have been jointly awarded to President Isaias Afewerki given shared efforts made in 2018 to end the state of war between the neighboring countries. Regardless of …
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