'I Am Calling Randomly To Say Hi': Eritreans, Ethiopians Phone Each Other Amid Thaw
As Ethiopia and Eritrea declared peace, long-dead phone lines came alive. People spoke with relatives and strangers. "We will be family," an Eritrean told an Ethiopian who randomly dialed him.
At home in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa, Frehiwot Negash was watching history unfold on television.
She watched Sunday as Abiy Ahmed, the young reformist prime minister of Ethiopia, stepped off a plane and hugged the longtime ruler of Eritrea, Isaias Afwerki, waiting on the tarmac in Eritrea's capital.
The two men would officially declare an end to a cold war sparked by one of the deadliest conflicts of the African continent.
