Abiy Ahmed, the prime minister of Ethiopia, was awarded the
Nobel Peace Prize for his work in restarting peace talks with
neighboring Eritrea and beginning to restore freedoms in his
country after decades of political and economic repression.
Mr. Abiy, broke through two decades of frozen conflict between his
vast country, Africa’s second most populous, and Eritrea, its small
and isolated neighbor. When he became prime minister of Ethiopia
in 2018, he threw himself at a breakneck pace into reforms at
home, and peace negotiations with the rebel-turned-dictator Isaias
Afwerki, president of Eritrea.