Looting, forced removals plague Ethiopia’s Tigray despite truce – witnesses
Nairobi, KenyaReuters Ethiopia’s allies are looting towns, arresting and killing civilians and relocating thousands of people from a disputed part of Tigray despite a truce between the government and local forces, witnesses and aid workers in the northern region say. The violence raises fresh concerns about whether the ceasefire signed on 2nd November by Ethiopia’s […]
Ethiopia combatants sign deal to start implementing truce
Nairobi, KenyaReuters The Ethiopian Government and Tigrayan forces on Saturday signed an agreement laying out the roadmap for implementation of a peace deal that both sides reached in South Africa this month. Representatives from the Ethiopian Government and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front have been meeting in Nairobi since Monday to reach agreement on various […]
Ethiopia says Tigray aid allowed, agencies say still no access
Nairobi, KenyaReuters Ethiopia’s government said on Friday that international aid was “allowed and ready” to move into Tigray, after humanitarian agencies said they were still awaiting access to the war-ravaged region nine days after a truce was declared. Under the ceasefire agreement signed on 2nd November with the Tigray People’s Liberation Front, which controls the […]
Ethiopian and Tigray forces launch hotline as new peace talks begin
Nairobi, KenyaReuters The Ethiopian Government and Tigrayan forces have established a telephone hotline to help maintain a ceasefire struck last week, and both sides met in Kenya on Monday for a new round of talks on implementing the truce. Ethiopia’s government and regional forces from Tigray agreed last Wednesday to cease hostilities after talks mediated […]
Analysis – Truce in Ethiopia’s Tigray war just first step on long road to peace
Reuters Implementing the ceasefire agreed by the Ethiopian Government and forces from the northern region of Tigray will be fraught with difficulties, while thorny political and territorial disputes will need to be tackled to achieve lasting peace. Two years of war between Ethiopia’s federal army and Tigray forces have killed thousands of people, displaced millions […]
Parties to war in Ethiopia’s Tigray region agree to stop fighting
Pretoria, South Africa Reuters The Ethiopian Government and regional forces from Tigray agreed on Wednesday to cease hostilities, a dramatic diplomatic breakthrough two years into a war that has killed thousands, displaced millions and left hundreds of thousands facing famine. Just over a week after formal peace talks mediated by the African Union began in […]
Ethiopia peace talks start in South Africa
Johannesburg, South AfricaReuters The first formal peace talks aimed at ending two years of war between the Ethiopian army and forces from the country’s northern region of Tigray started in South Africa on Tuesday and will end on Sunday, the South African government said. At stake is an opportunity to end a conflict that has […]
First peace talks on Ethiopia’s Tigray conflict to start in South Africa
Pretoria, South AfricaReuters Negotiators for the Ethiopian Government and regional forces from Tigray were due to meet in the South African capital Pretoria for the first formal peace talks since war broke out two years ago. The talks come after the Ethiopian military and their allies, who include troops from neighbouring Eritrea, captured several large […]
Tigrayan forces say ready to accept an AU-led peace process in Ethiopia
Updated: 9:45am (AEST)Nairobi, Kenya Reuters Forces in northern Ethiopia’s Tigray region that have been fighting the central government for nearly two years said on Sunday they are ready for a ceasefire and would accept an African Union-led peace process. “We are ready to abide by an immediate and mutually agreed cessation of hostilities,” the Tigrayan […]
Fighting flares for second day in northern Ethiopia -residents
Nairobi, Kenya Reuters Fighting flared for a second day in northern Ethiopia, residents said on Thursday, an outbreak of violence that has shattered hopes for fledgling peace talks between the government and forces from the Tigray region. “We are frequently hearing the sound of heavy weapons, more than the previous days,” a farmer in Amhara’s […]