Two brothers aged three and four were among eight Eritreans and one Ethiopian reunited with their families last week after being separated during the bitter war between the two countries.
The boys were flown to the Eritrean capital Asmara via Nairobi in Kenya as part of an operation organised by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).
A 16-year-old travelled from Asmara to the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa in a second operation, the ICRC said in a statement.
Some 250 Ethiopians and Eritreans have been reunited with their families since the war flared up in 1998.
“The programme is intended to reunite family members who are separated because of a conflict situation," the ICRC statement noted. “It is addressed to minors, elderly people and medical
cases.”
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