African contributions to the Swedish champions

Today the football championship in my home country Sweden was decided. Stockholm team AIK finished first in the table and there were a few African contributions to this league victory.

Ghanaian Enoch Kofi Adu was an integral part of the team´s performance and played nearly every game as a midfielder.
Congolese-born Swedish winger Heradi Rashidi scored one goal during the season.
Swedish player Henok Goitom, who is of Eritrean descent and has played for the Eritrea national team, contributed a lot by scoring twelve goals.

Ethiopia introduces new peace ministry

The Ethiopian government has announced that it will create a new peace ministry in the country.
"The main problem in this this country is the lack of peace. This ministry will be working hard to ensure it prevails", prime minister Abiy Ahmed said, according to the Guardian.

One task for the minstry will be to downgrade the security and intelligence forces. Prime minister Abiy Ahmed has been known for his reforms in Ethiopia and most notably he recently made peace with the neighbor country Eritrea. Only the future can tell if Ethiopia will be a better country thanks to Abiy Ahmeds political reforms. In the video below you can see a BBC report from when Abiy Ahmed bacame prime minister.

Peace between Ethiopia and Eritrea

Last month it seemed that Ethiopia and Eritrea might have finally found peace after a long conflict. According to this article there was a lot of joy among the people and one Ethiopian even compared the event to the fall of the Berlin wall. The article also investigates the oppurtunities for a more democratic society. Hopefully the countrie´s intent for peace will last.

Eritrea became independent from Ethiopia in 1993. Between 1998 and 2000 the two countries were at war with each other and its not until now that the border conflict has been resolved.