00:00It has been 25 years since the Algiers agreement.
00:06This landmark treaty helped end the border conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea that lasted from 1989 to 2000.
00:15Between 70,000 and 80,000 people died during that war on both sides.
00:20Eritrea had seceded from Ethiopia just a few years earlier.
00:24On Friday, the day of the anniversary of the treaty, UN chief Antonio Guterres said that both countries should recommit to the peace treaty to prevent renewed conflict.
00:35Their relations improved greatly until 2018, when Eritrea's president even went on an official visit to Ethiopia for a bilateral summit, his first time in the country in 22 years.
00:48That same year, the two nations also fully accepted the peace deal, but more recently, tensions have been rising again in the Horn of Africa.
00:58Ethiopia deployed troops to joint border areas earlier this year in March, and at the same time, Eritrea called for young people to sign up for the armed forces.
01:08No official reasons were given for these military build-ups, but access to the Red Sea, which Ethiopia could only get through Eritrea, remains a background reason for potential tensions.
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