You're listening to the inquiry on the BBC World Service with me, Helena Merriman.

Each week, one question, four expert witnesses, and an answer. It's early morning in Ethiopia, an adesalim, a journalist in his 50s is heading to the airport.

He's nervous. He's been waiting for this trip for years and

doesn't know whether he'll find what he's looking for at the other end. He bought the plane,

looks out of the window, and waits.

An hour later he arrives in Eritrea.

He makes his way to a small house followed by cameras.

The door opens and three women come out.

They run towards him and he pulls them in close, his face

stricken with emotion. It's his wife and two daughters. He hasn't seen them in 20 years.

Now the darkness has been removed, he says.

Now the darkness has been removed, he says, and I am able to see my wife the sun shines on my children and I have met my grandson

it's like winning the lottery without buying a ticket.

Like many in Ethiopia and Eritrea, his family was separated when the war broke out in 1998.

Flights were suspended and people couldn't even talk on the phone

or write letters as all communications were cut off. But in July the two countries

became friends signing a peace deal that ended Africa's longest

war. But just how strong is this peace deal? Will it last? Part 1, reconnected.

Re-connected. That's semi-Yunice and the radio show she presents in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia.

That's semi-Yunice and the radio shows she presents in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia.

It's called Yaga-Bagnal, which means it's my concern.

And the only thing people seem concerned about at the moment is the peace deal.

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