Ethiopian POWs to come home

Ethiopian officials say more than one-hundred prisoners of war captured by Eritrea during the border conflict are to be sent back to Ethiopia later today.

A foreign ministry official was quoted on Ethiopian radio saying that over two-hundred Eritrean prisoners of war would also be sent home on Saturday.

Earlier this month, Ethiopia and Eritrea signed a peace agreement in Algeria to end two years of war that cost tens of thousands of lives.

The agreement, brokered by the Organisation of African Unity, establishes commissions to delineate the disputed border; it also provides for an exchange of prisoners and the return of displaced people.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service