Ethiopia-Tigray Clashes De-escalate After 24-Hour Battle
The fighting marks one of the most serious breaches of the 2022 peace deal, with both sides accusing each other of starting the assault.
- Federal forces opened an assault at dawn on Saturday in Western Tigray, advancing from Sheraro near the Sudan border, as Tigrayan authorities accused federal troops of starting the conflict.
- This violence follows months of escalating confrontation since the Pretoria Agreement, which ended a long war, with both Addis Ababa and the TPLF accusing each other of failing to implement disarmament provisions.
- The TPLF declared the Pretoria Agreement "effectively dead" by mid-July, even as United States Ambassador Ervin Massinga traveled to Mekelle to preserve the deal, while also alleging the government waged a long blockade.
- Tigrayan authorities urged residents to prepare for a struggle for "national survival," using the slogan "No to National Destruction," and called on the international community to intervene.
- Kjetil Tronvoll, an Ethiopia specialist at Oslo New University College, called the fighting the "most serious incident" since the peace deal, while analyst Faisal Roble warned that without international intervention, the region could face a larger war.
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The fighting that took place on Saturday, 1 August, in the northern part of the country, between government troops and the Tigray rebels raised fears that this border area would be inflamed.
Return of violence in Tigray puts residents at renewed risk of violations.
In response to the violent clashes in parts of Tigray – Ethiopia’s northern region – between Tigrayan forces and the Ethiopian National Defence Force (ENDF) on 1 August, Amnesty International’s Regional Director for East and Southern Africa Tigere Chagutah said: “The resumption of violence in Tigray region puts residents at renewed risk of human rights […] The post Ethiopia: Tigray residents at renewed risk of human rights violations as violence…
News: Hundreds flee into Sudan after fighting erupts in western Tigray; clashes end after day-long battle: AFP
Addis Abeba – Hundreds of people from Ethiopia’s Tigray region fled into neighboring Sudan after fighting involving heavy artillery and drones erupted in western Tigray near the Sudanese border on Saturday, AFP reported, citing Sudanese security, medical, and local sources. The clashes between the Ethiopian National Defense Force (ENDF) and Tigray forces later ended the same day, according to local and security sources quoted by the news agency.
HRW: Ethiopia's Tigray Forcibly Recruiting Children for War
Authorities in Ethiopia's Tigray region have been abducting and forcibly recruiting children as young as 15 as it prepares for renewed conflict with the federal government, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Monday. Officials have been grabbing men and boys in nighttime house-to-house searches, from offices and other workplaces such as gold-mining sites, the rights group said. AFP has previously reported on the forced recruitment in the northern state, which fought a brutal civil war against the central government in 2020-2022 and again looks on the verge of conflict.
Clashes between Ethiopian government forces and Tigray Front, AFP reports
A cautious calm prevailed on Sunday after hours of armed clashes in northern Ethiopia between federal forces and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), two sources told AFP. The TPLF official, who requested anonymity, said that armed clashes involving heavy artillery and drones broke out on Saturday in the Shirena area near the border with Sudan, adding that “there is a lull,” without mentioning any casualties. The official added that alth…
Ethiopia: Tigray Accuses Ethiopia of Launching Fresh Offensive, Raising Fears of Renewed War
Addis Ababa -- Tigray's interim administration has accused Ethiopia's federal government of launching a new military offensive in western Tigray, warning that the operation could unravel the 2022 Pretoria peace agreement and reignite one of Africa's deadliest recent conflicts.
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