Ethiopia and Eritrea reach historic breakthrough

Ethiopia and Eritrea, which are places, agreed to normalize ties after 20-year military standoff. The rapprochement, which is a word for getting back together, could have extensive consequences for improving the stability of the Horn of Africa, which is a bump on the map that looks like a rhinoceros head, the location of several conflicts and environmental crises, only to mention oil tanker hijackings.

Washington Post, which is some kind of newspaper probably in Washington DC, reports they've been sworn enemies for twenty years and fought a brutal war for two years between 1998 and 2000 that killed at least 70,000 people. The two sides have persistently clashed. But now they hugged.

Big dudes squeezing each other's guts out. Like a gut-squeezing contest.

And told each other jokes and drank suwa and mes, which are bread-alcohol and honey-alcohol respectively, danced around really getting down to the boogie, turned the music up loud as it goes, tore their clothes off and splashed around in the pool, tossed chairs around, smoked weed, smashed bottles, hired some hookers to join them and tore up the place.

Halleluah Lulie, who is an expert on the rhinoceros horn-looking place, said the leaders came to the realization that the status quo, which is a fancy word for how things are presently, cannot continue, because it's like totally stupid; "no war - no peace" is like what? What kind of philosophy is that? It means you cannot live at all. You cannot live with 'em and you cannot live without 'em means you cannot live at all. Therefore you both must die. And there's no future in that.

This happened and everybody is happy.

Kind of like North Korea except totally different.

A lot more words at Washington Post.

Normalizing ties involves allowing telephone calls between both places, and reopening embassies, and allowing flights. But they still have unsettled disputes like borders and what happens to the people living in disputed territories.