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Chris Stein
Journalist based in Addis Ababa
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The sudden outbreak of peace

Thursday 16 August 2018

"There were people going to Asmara to find brothers, cousins and friends they’d been separated from for years... Many had assumed their loved ones were dead, only to hear from them just days earlier when Ethiopia and Eritrea reconnected phone lines that were severed when war erupted," writes Chris Stein, a journalist based in Ethiopia, on the human side of the sudden outbreak of peace between Eritrea and Ethiopia after 20 years of war.

 

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