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Eritrea said it was ready to work toward peace, stability, and regional integration after re-joining the East African bloc, the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) recently. For long 16 years, the Horn of Africa country stayed out of the group
Eritrea said it was ready to work toward peace, stability, and regional integration after re-joining the East African bloc, the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) recently. For 16 years, the Horn of Africa country stayed out of the group.
Eritrea’s Information Minister Yemane Meskel said that his country resumed its activity in IGAD and took its seat at a summit organized by the seven-nation bloc in Djibouti recently. Eritrea is led by 77-year-old Isaias Afwerki who has ruled for three decades. He had suspended its IGAD membership in 2007 after a string of disagreements. One of them was the bloc’s decision to ask Kenya to oversee the resolution of a border dispute between Ethiopia and Eritrea.
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Eritrea broke away from Ethiopia, its neighbor, in 1993 and fought a two-year border war that prolonged into tense and bitter relations until 2018. Subsequently, a peace agreement was signed with Abiy Ahmed, Ethiopia’s prime minister.
