Media in the U.S. Praise Ethiopia-Eritrea Détente

After almost twen­ty years of a resent­ful stale­mate between Ethiopia and Eritrea, the recent­ly elect­ed Prime Min­is­ter of Ethiopia, Abiy Ahmed, announced that the gov­ern­ment will ful­ly accept the pre­vi­ous­ly unrec­og­nized 2000 Algiers peace agree­ment. Despite the bit­ter dis­pute over the bor­der town of Badme, the new Ethiopi­an admin­is­tra­tion is acknowl­edg­ing the futil­i­ty of disagreement…