Today, Friday, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and government officials held their first meeting with the leaders of the Tigray Liberation Front since the November peace agreement.
The Ethiopian Broadcasting Authority reported that the two sides assessed the steps taken so far to implement the Pretoria and Nairobi peace agreements, and discussed issues that require more attention. She explained that the meeting took place in a resort in southern Ethiopia.
Rizwan Hussein, the security adviser to the prime minister - on Twitter - said that Abiy Ahmed passed decisions on increasing the number of flights, banking services and other issues that will enhance confidence and facilitate the lives of civilians.
A peace agreement signed by the federal government in Addis Ababa and the Tigray Front in Pretoria in November last year stopped the fighting in northern Ethiopia.
Under the terms of the agreement, the TPLF agreed to disarm and restore federal government authority in the region in exchange for resuming access to Tigray, which was largely cut off from the world during the two-year war.
Since the signing of the agreement, limited deliveries of relief shipments have resumed to Tigray, which has faced severe shortages of food, fuel, cash and medicine.
Basic services such as telecommunications, banking and electricity are slowly returning to the region of 6 million people, while Ethiopian Airlines resumed commercial flights between Addis Ababa and Mekele, the capital of Tigray, last month.
And while the Tigray Front announced that it had begun to abandon its weapons, residents and aid workers say that the Eritrean army and forces from the neighboring Amhara region are still in parts of Tigray, where they accuse them of committing killings, rape and looting.
Access to Tigray is restricted, making it impossible to independently verify the situation on the ground.