Ethiopia says airline to resume Eritrea flights by September

Ethiopian Airlines will reintroduce flights to Eritrea by mid-September, 2 decades after a border conflict upended relations between the Horn of Africa neighbours. “Ethiopian Airlines get ready because soon you’ll start going to Eritrea and coming back,” prime minister Abiy Ahmed said at a state dinner for a visiting Eritrean delegation in the capital, Addis Ababa. “Let us not transfer to our children hatred and the holding of grudges.” Ethiopian Airlines’ CE Tewolde Gebre Mariam said flights would resume “as soon as formalities are completed.” Eritrean president Isaias Afwerki, in power from 1993 when the Red Sea state seceded from landlocked Ethiopia, sent a delegation including foreign minister Osman Saleh for talks in Ethiopia after Abiy said he was keen on normalising relations. <br/>