{"id":277252,"date":"2019-05-28T00:56:42","date_gmt":"2019-05-28T04:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CBMiV2h0dHBzOi8vd3d3LnN1bm5ld3NvbmxpbmUuY29tL3BlYWNlLWluLXRoZS1ob3JuLW9mLWFmcmljYS1iZXR3ZWVuLWV0aGlvcGlhLWFuZC1lcml0cmVhL9IBAA?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-24T11:27:03","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T15:27:03","slug":"a-daily-sun-essay-said-ethiopia-eritrea-peace-could-reshape-the-horn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/277252","title":{"rendered":"A Daily Sun essay said Ethiopia\u2013Eritrea peace could reshape the Horn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In May 2019 Nigeria\u2019s Daily Sun published an essay by Inwalomhe Donald arguing that full normalization between Ethiopia and Eritrea could open borders, ports, embassies, and flights that had been shut since the 1998\u20132000 war.<\/p>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-420569\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Eritrea.png?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"A Daily Sun essay said Ethiopia\u2013Eritrea peace could reshape the Horn\" \/>\n<p>The piece framed joint economic projects and freer movement as a pathway for Horn peace, and it also sketched how a less isolated Eritrea might engage conflicts in South Sudan and Somalia.<\/p>\n<p>Those hopes sat beside later border closures and incomplete implementation, so the essay captures the early optimism after Abiy Ahmed and Isaias Afwerki\u2019s 2018 rapprochement.<\/p>\n<p>Kept as Horn geopolitics archive, the Daily Sun commentary dates how African opinion writers sold the peace spring in mid-2019.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sunnewsonline.com\/peace-in-the-horn-of-africa-between-ethiopia-and-eritrea\/\">Daily Sun<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peace in the Horn of Africa: Between Ethiopia and Eritrea&nbsp;&nbsp;Daily SunInwalomhe Donald. ETHIOPIA and Eritrea relations will promote peace and understanding between Ethiopia and Eritrea in different spheres. Ethiopia and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":420569,"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-277252","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\/2022\/11\/Eritrea.png?fit=650%2C338&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1a7O","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277252","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=277252"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":754941,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277252\/revisions\/754941"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}