Abiy Ahmed congratulated by Malala for winning Nobel Peace Prize
October 11, 2019
LONDON: The youngest Nobel Prize laureate, Malala Yousufzai on Friday congratulated Prime Minister of Ethiopia Abiy Ahmed Ali for winning the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize.
In a tweet, she said: “Congratulations to Prime Minister @AbiyAhmedAli, winner of the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize, and to all people working for reconciliation between Ethiopia and Eritrea”.
The 43-year-old Ethiopian Prime Minister, who came into power in April 2018 andsince then started mending relations with Eritrea following decades of conflict between the countries.
On July 9, 2018, following a historic meeting in Eritrea´s capital Asmara, Abiy and Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki formally ended a 20-year-old stalemate between the countries in the wake of the 1998-2000 border conflict.
A peace deal was signed later that year, and embassies have been reopened and flight routes between the countries resumed.
