Highlights: Since February 7, the federal government has been discussing in Addis Ababa with the authorities of Tigray. Tigray, this province in the north of the country, at war against the central state, from 2020 to 2022. The parties must review the application of the Pretoria peace agreement signed at the end of 2022, and whose application is far from complete. More than a million displaced people and refugees have still not returned home, while famine affects the province. The talks are due to last until March 13.

Since Thursday, February 7, the federal government has been discussing in Addis Ababa with the authorities of Tigray, this province in the north of the country, at war against the central state, from 2020 to 2022. The talks must…

Ethiopia: ongoing negotiations around the Pretoria peace agreement

Ethiopian region of Tigray (photo illustration) © RFI/ Sébastien Németh

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Ethiopia

, the Tigray war left

some 600,000 dead

, according to an estimate by the African Union (AU).

During these talks – placed under the auspices of the AU, in the presence of the Americans, the UN, the European Union and the Intergovernmental Authority on Development – the parties must review the application of the Pretoria peace agreement signed at the end of 2022, and whose application is far from complete.

“

This situation has gone on for too long.
The most complete possible application of the agreement is imperative

,” said Getachew Reda, interim president of the Tigrayan authority.

The Pretoria peace agreement is in abeyance.

Certainly, there has been progress: the TPLF, the political organ of Tigrayan power, has been removed from the list of terrorist organizations.

And slowly, humanitarian aid comes in and an administration is put back in place.

A very worrying humanitarian context

But serious obstacles are still there.

Part of Tigray is still occupied, notably by troops from the neighboring Amhara province, as well as in the north, by Eritrean soldiers.

The latter are accused of continuing to kidnap Tigrayan farmers and stealing livestock, which Asmara continues to deny.

Great uncertainty also surrounds the disarmament, demobilization and reintegration program.

A commission has been in place for a year.

Officially, the heavy weapons have been delivered.

But a lot remains to be done.

Last month, Getachew Reda even admitted that Tigray still had 270,000 armed fighters.

All this takes place in

a very worrying humanitarian context

More than a million displaced people and refugees have still not returned home, while famine affects the province.

Ethiopia: ongoing negotiations around the Pretoria peace agreement

Ethiopia: ongoing negotiations around the Pretoria peace agreement

A very worrying humanitarian context

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