Renewed fighting in northern Ethiopia effectively shatters 2022 peace deal that ended war
The alliance said it launched defensive operations as federal forces counterattacked and flights were suspended across northern Ethiopia, officials said.
- On Wednesday, Tigray People's Liberation Front fighters seized control of three airports in Mekelle, Shire, and Axum, prompting Ethiopian Airlines to suspend flights and effectively shattering the 2022 Pretoria peace agreement.
- The TPLF and six other opposition groups formed the Ethiopian Peoples' Forces Alliance for Survival on Sunday, pledging to remove Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and uniting former adversaries including the Amhara Fano National Movement.
- Ethiopia's military reported killing 272 Tigrayan fighters and wounding 260 during counter-offensives in the Amhara region, while government officials accused the TPLF of launching an 'all-out offensive' against federal positions as rebels attacked into Afar.
- U.S. Ambassador Ervin J. Massinga called the TPLF's move a 'poor decision to launch a large-scale offensive,' while the African Union urged immediate de-escalation as residents in Mekelle reported fear amid internet disruptions and road closures.
- Analysts warn the conflict could draw in neighboring Eritrea and complicate regional stability, echoing the 2020 war that claimed 500,000 lives, with federal forces stretched across multiple fronts against the new rebel alliance.
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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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