Renewed fighting in northern Ethiopia effectively shatters 2022 peace deal that ended war
Seven opposition groups joined the TPLF in a new alliance aimed at removing Abiy, while federal forces said dozens of fighters were killed.
- Fighting returned to Ethiopia's Tigray region this week, leaving the Pretoria peace agreement near collapse. Federal and Tigrayan forces accuse each other of restarting hostilities nearly four years after signing the accord.
- The Pretoria agreement ended major fighting in 2022 but left security and territorial disputes unresolved. The Tigray People's Liberation Front joined six opposition groups, including the Amhara Fano National Movement and Oromo Liberation Army, to oppose Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed.
- Ethiopian Airlines suspended flights to Tigray this week after Tigrayan forces seized Mekelle airport. Residents reported closed roads to the Afar region, while NetBlocks documented internet disruptions across northern Ethiopia.
- Laetitia Bader, a regional director at Human Rights Watch, warned that renewed Ethiopian conflict could deepen the regional emergency. Experts fear fighting could spread, potentially drawing in Eritrea and creating another crisis alongside Sudan's humanitarian disaster.
- Preventing a wider war requires an immediate ceasefire, renewed negotiations, and sustained international pressure. Researchers at Ghent University estimated that the previous war caused about 500,000 civilian deaths, underscoring the urgency of stopping the conflict.
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“I am deeply concerned about the recent escalation of hostilities between Ethiopian government forces and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front,” a UN official said. The post Ethiopia: UN “deeply concerned” about the resurgence of hostilities in Tigray appeared first on in.gr.
Fighting raises conflict fears in Ethiopia
Flights were suspended and Internet services disrupted across parts of northern Ethiopia as fighting spread and the government said it had killed 272 rebels, raising fears of a return to the brutal civil war that ended in 2022.The renewed fighting comes four years after Ethiopia signed a peace deal
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Ethiopia risks a wider war. Here are 5 things to know
Renewed fighting in northern Ethiopia is threatening the fragile peace that ended the Tigray war. A new opposition alliance has united former enemies against Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s government, while worsening relations with Eritrea raise the risk of a regional…
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