With more than a million people uprooted by ethnic violence, Ethiopians are hoping their celebrations will mark a better future for Africa’s second most populous country.

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and his Eritrean counterpart Isias Afwerki are visiting  troops on the border marking the normalization of relations between the neighboring countries.

They’ve gone to Bure which saw some of the bitterest fighting in their two year war that ended in the year 2000 leaving more than 80 000 people dead.

Ethnic wars within Ethiopia are still taking a murderous toll.

New leader Ahmed must taken credit for making peace with Eritrea, but he has his work cut out ending the internal conflict with his own people the Oromia.

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