The President of Eritrea, Isaias Afwerki, is in Ethiopia on a three-day working visit as part of efforts to accelerate a budding friendly relationship between Asmara and Addis Ababa.
Afwerki’s visit, the third in two years, comes on the back of ongoing talks aimed at establishing stronger ties between the neighbors who were at war from 1998 to 2018 when both countries declared the conflict officially over.
According to Eritrea’s Information ministry, Afwerki was invited by Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed for “extensive consultations on further enhancement of bilateral ties as well as the consolidation of regional cooperation”.