NAIROBI, Kenya—In the first formal diplomatic contact in two decades, officials from Eritrea met with their Ethiopian counterparts on Tuesday, a potential turning point in a long dispute over their border that has kept the region on edge.
A lasting rapprochement between the two countries would dissolve a fault-line that has isolated Eritrea. complicated alliances and fragmented the already conflict-prone Horn of Africa, where Western powers are invested militarily and deploy billions in humanitarian aid.
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