Dejen Mezgebe is standing in the office of the Tigray Independence Party, behind him a small partition with the party's logo, in the adjoining rooms there are deserted desks and empty bookshelves. It doesn't seem like many people have stopped by here in the past few months. "I was in the bush," says Dejen, referring to the civil war in the Tigray region in northern Ethiopia, which began in November 2020 and lasted almost two years. A fragile peace has...
One more step towards restoring peace. On Wednesday, according to a spokesman, the Tigrayan rebels began to surrender their heavy weapons to the public authorities. This announcement follows an agreement signed more than two months ago to end a deadly conflict in northern Ethiopia."Tigray has handed over its heavy weapons as part of its commitment to implement the Pretoria agreement", signed on November 2 between the Ethiopian government and the Tigrayan rebels, Getachew Reda said in a tweet.Tigray has handed...
Status: 13.11.2022 01:20 a.m In the Tigray conflict, high-ranking military officials have agreed on unrestricted access for humanitarian aid. The agreement is to come into effect immediately. In the conflict in Ethiopia, which has been going on for two years, the government and the rebels have agreed to provide humanitarian aid to the people in the war-ravaged northern Tigray region. "The parties have agreed to grant unimpeded access to humanitarian aid to all those in need in Tigray and neighboring...
We had to wait for the fighting to stop to finally hear about the conflict. An "ignored" war, considered to be one of the deadliest in the world, according to Amnesty International, has been raging for two years in Ethiopia. Deaths by the hundreds of thousands in the second most populous country in Africa, a humanitarian disaster, mediation orchestrated by the United States, famine, etc. So much information that normally scrolls in red on the information banners of our continuous...
In recent history, Ethiopia has never managed to resolve its conflicts at the negotiating table. Now an agreement is supposed to silence the guns. Can this work? source site
Even if it's not yet peace, it's still a big step in its direction. The Ethiopian federal government and the rebel authorities of Tigray concluded a cessation of hostilities agreement in Pretoria on Wednesday, less than 48 hours before the second anniversary of the deadly conflict between them in northern Ethiopia.The two parties "formally agreed on a cessation of hostilities, as well as on a methodical, orderly, smooth and coordinated disarmament", announced the high representative of the African Union (AU)...
Ethiopian government representative Redwan Hussein Rameto (left) and Tigray rebels representative Getachew Reda (right) shake hands during peace talks in Pretoria on Wednesday, November 2, 2022. PHILL MAGAKOE / AFP Less than forty-eight hours before the anniversary date of the conflict that has pitted them for two years, the Ethiopian federal government and the rebel authorities of Tigray concluded on Wednesday, November 2 in Pretoria an agreement of "cessation of hostilities" and of “methodical disarmament”. Among the main points of...
Status: 11/02/2022 6:08 p.m Ethiopia's government and the Tigray People's Liberation Front have agreed on an immediate ceasefire. Access to relief supplies should also be guaranteed. It is unclear how Eritrea will behave. According to the African Union (AU), the parties to the conflict in Ethiopia have agreed to end the violence. AU special envoy and former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo said the Ethiopian government and representatives of the embattled Tigray region had agreed on an orderly and coordinated disarmament...
conflicts Ethiopia: Armistice with Tigray rebels Ethiopian government soldiers drive in the Tigray region. photo © Ben Curtis/AP/dpa/Archive War has been raging in Ethiopia for almost exactly two years. More than half a million people are said to have died. Now there is hope for peace. After nearly two years of war, the Ethiopian government and the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) have agreed on an immediate ceasefire. The African Union mediator, former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, said Wednesday after...
Status: 10/18/2022 4:55 p.m Government troops and rebels have been fighting each other in Ethiopia for two years. Now the Ethiopian army has captured an important city in the Tigray region. The UN warned of an escalation of the conflict. In Ethiopia, government forces have scored an important victory in nearly two years of fighting against the rebels of the People's Liberation Front in the Tigray region in the north of the country. Both sides confirmed that the army has...
