Eritrea rejoins IGAD 16 years after walk-out
Eritrea broke away from Ethiopia in 1993 and fought a two-year border war with its neighbor which poisoned relations until a peace agreement in 2018.
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"Eritrea resumed its activity in IGAD and took its seat" at a summit organised by the seven-nation bloc in Djibouti on Monday, Meskel said on Twitter.
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Eritrea has rejoined the East African bloc, the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD), nearly 16 years after the politically isolated state pulled out of the body, Information Minister Yemane Meskel