The land border between Ethiopia and Eritrea is to reopen Tuesday allowing citizens of both countries to cross over for the first time in two decades. Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and Eritrea’s President Isaias Afwerki are due to attend the ceremony, Eritrean Information Minister Yemane Gebre Meskel said on Twitter. The western border post at Zalambessa was among those closed in 1998 as the neighbouring Horn of Africa nations cut diplomatic ties at the outbreak of a short but bloody two-year frontier war.
