{"id":273402,"date":"2019-04-17T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-18T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMib2h0dHBzOi8vd3d3LmFmcmljYW5ld3MuY29tLzIwMTkvMDQvMTgvYWxnZXJpYS1zLWJvdXRlZmxpa2EtYnJva2VyLW9mLXRoZS1ldGhpb3BpYS1lcml0cmVhLWRlYWwtYWJpeS1hY3R1YWxpemVkL9IBAA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-12T11:23:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T15:23:10","slug":"algerias-bouteflika-and-the-ethiopia-eritrea-deal-abiy-later-sealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/273402","title":{"rendered":"Algeria\u2019s Bouteflika and the Ethiopia-Eritrea deal Abiy later sealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Africanews revisited Algeria\u2019s Abdelaziz <strong>Bouteflika<\/strong> as an early broker around the Ethiopia-Eritrea conflict, noting how Abiy Ahmed later sealed a peace opening that Algiers had once tried to midwife after Africa\u2019s costly border war.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-264152\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Ethiopian-Prime-Minister-Abiy-Ahmed-signs-a-peace-accord-with-Eritrea.-Image-Saudi-Press-Agency-via-AP-1.jpg?fit=595%2C445&ssl=1\" alt=\"Algeria\u2019s Bouteflika and the Ethiopia-Eritrea deal Abiy later sealed\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Barely into office in the late 1990s, Bouteflika was pulled into mediation after the 1998-2000 war. Decades later, the 2018 rapprochement under Abiy reframed who got credit for normalizing ties that had stayed frozen.<\/p>\n<p>History pieces like this matter because peace branding is competitive. The Ethiopian government celebrated the new handshake with Asmara while older African mediation tracks faded from memory.<\/p>\n<p>For Red Sea and Horn readers, the Bouteflika footnote is a reminder that Ethiopia-Eritrea diplomacy has layers. Abiy\u2019s breakthrough sat on a long shelf of incomplete bargains, and border realities later proved how fragile paper peace can be.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africanews.com\/2019\/04\/18\/algeria-s-bouteflika-broker-of-the-ethiopia-eritrea-deal-abiy-actualized\/\">Africanews<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Algeria&#8217;s Bouteflika: Broker of the Ethiopia-Eritrea deal Abiy actualized&nbsp;&nbsp;africanewsBarely months in office, Bouteflika was quickly called to task in the wake of what became one of Africa&#8217;s deadliest and costliest border wars. The Ethiopia &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":264152,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-273402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Ethiopian-Prime-Minister-Abiy-Ahmed-signs-a-peace-accord-with-Eritrea.-Image-Saudi-Press-Agency-via-AP-1.jpg?fit=595%2C445&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-197I","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/30"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=273402"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":600849,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273402\/revisions\/600849"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}