{"id":280496,"date":"2018-09-11T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-11T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CAIiEKtQbu5KHi3JVpX68pinkggqFwgEKg8IACoHCAoww5LyAzD2zh0wlq1V?oc=5"},"modified":"2026-09-10T11:36:50","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T15:36:50","slug":"ethiopia-and-eritrea-pull-back-troops-and-reopen-the-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/280496","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia and Eritrea pull back troops and reopen the border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By September 2018, Ethiopia and Eritrea had moved from ceremonial diplomacy to concrete steps: <strong>troop withdrawals<\/strong> from front-line positions and the reopening of border crossings that had been sealed for years.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" height=\"780\" width=\"780\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-361504\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Isaias-and-Abiy.jpg?fit=780%2C780&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Ethiopia and Eritrea pull back troops and reopen the border\" \/><\/p>\n\n<p>Deutsche Welle reported the pullback as the practical face of the peace declaration\u2014families reuniting, trade tentatively restarting, and a symbolic end to the militarized freeze that followed the 1998\u20132000 war.<\/p>\n<p>Later years showed how incomplete and reversible some of those gains could be. Even so, the 2018 border reopening remains a landmark date for anyone mapping Horn conflict, migration, and the politics of \u201cpeace without durable institutions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/ethiopia-and-eritrea-withdraw-troops-and-open-borders\/a-45438892\">Deutsche Welle<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.un.org\/en\/story\/2018\/09\/1019072\">UN News<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia and Eritrea withdraw troops and open borders&nbsp;&nbsp;DW (English)After nearly twenty years, bitter rivals Ethiopia and Eritrea have pulled troops back from the frontier and are opening border crossings. Normalization moves &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":30,"featured_media":361504,"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-280496","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\/2021\/07\/Isaias-and-Abiy.jpg?fit=600%2C481&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-1aY8","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280496","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=280496"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":599919,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280496\/revisions\/599919"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}