ETHIOPIAN Airlines, Africa's biggest carrier by revenue, will take a 20 per cent stake in Eritrean Airlines, the state-owned Ethiopian Press Agency reported.
Ethiopian will also resume flights to Asmara, the capital of neighboring Eritrea, the ruling party-funded Fana Broadcasting Corp, reported earlier, after the two countries made a historic agreement to end a state of war and rebuild economic ties.
Ethiopian Airlines CEO Tewolde Gebremariam and Eritrean Information Minister Yemane Gebremeskel had no comment on the report, said Bloomberg News.
Landlocked Ethiopia will also resume using Eritrea's ports, which have been closed to it since Eritrea won independence in the early 1990s, and telecommunications links and embassies are being reestablished.
The two countries had been at loggerheads since the end of a two-year border war in 2000 that claimed as many as 100,000 lives and left thousands of Ethiopian and Eritrean families divided.
Ethiopian will also resume flights to Asmara, the capital of neighboring Eritrea, the ruling party-funded Fana Broadcasting Corp, reported earlier, after the two countries made a historic agreement to end a state of war and rebuild economic ties.
Ethiopian Airlines CEO Tewolde Gebremariam and Eritrean Information Minister Yemane Gebremeskel had no comment on the report, said Bloomberg News.
Landlocked Ethiopia will also resume using Eritrea's ports, which have been closed to it since Eritrea won independence in the early 1990s, and telecommunications links and embassies are being reestablished.
The two countries had been at loggerheads since the end of a two-year border war in 2000 that claimed as many as 100,000 lives and left thousands of Ethiopian and Eritrean families divided.