Renewed fighting in northern Ethiopia effectively shatters 2022 peace deal that ended war
- Fighting between Ethiopian federal forces and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front has intensified, threatening the 2022 peace agreement that ended a two-year war.
- TPLF forces seized three airports and attacked the Afar and Amhara regions, prompting Ethiopian Airlines to suspend flights to Mekelle, Shire, and Axum.
- Ethiopia’s military reported killing 272 Tigrayan fighters and wounding 260 in Amhara, but AFP said the figures could not be independently verified.
- The renewed conflict has raised concerns about further escalation, after a war that killed hundreds of thousands of people according to different estimates.
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The Chief of General Staff of the Ethiopian Armed Forces, Birhana Jula, stated that foreign States, including Egypt and the Sudan, were providing military assistance to the rebels in the north; according to the commander, without external support, the rebel groups opposing Addis Ababa would not represent a significant force, and he did not provide evidence of the involvement of Cairo and Khartoum in the sponsorship of the rebels, notes RIA News,…
In Ethiopia, tension does not recur: several military fronts are now simultaneously active in several areas of the northern part of the country. A new front opened on Friday around the Tezeke River, in western Tigray.
Eight ethnic gun groups formed an alliance to oust Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed.
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