Ethiopia’s Abiy Ahmed won the Nobel Peace Prize with a ‘bridge of love’ and an unorthodox approach

The Nobel Committee’s decision to award its Peace Prize to Abiy Ahmed, the prime minister of Ethiopia, marks a return to tradition.

Mr Abiy is a peacemaker of the old school. For starters, he has actually signed a peace deal, agreeing a treaty last year to end Ethiopia’s long-running border conflict with its neighbour Eritrea.

The war was a vicious one. Tens of thousands were killed, mostly in trench warfare, during the active phase of hostilities from 1998 to 2000.

Although the war subsequently evolved into a frozen conflict, fighting along the border flared up periodically and the animosity between the two states spread instability across the Horn of Africa.

The peace treaty, signed in Saudi…

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