Pretoria, South Africa 2 November signing of the peace agreement between Ethiopia and the Tplf
Peace in Ethiopia, the High Representative of the African Union for the Horn of Africa, Olesegun Obasanjo, announces
At the end of the session, after a week of interviews, Olesegun Obasanjo, representative of the African Union who hosted the negotiations a Pretoriahe said, “it is the beginning of a new dawn for Ethiopia, for the Horn of Africa and, indeed, for Africa as a whole”.
It seems the curtain has finally fallen on the war started since Tplf exactly two years ago, on the night between 3 and 4 November, when the Tdf (Tigray Defense Force) attacked the Northern Command base in the region of Tigray. Many Federal Army soldiers stationed there for over twenty years were killed in their sleep, others wounded. A war action that immediately revealed the ethnic matrix, because those spared by the TPLF were all Tigrinya soldiers.
There are still no official estimates on the number of deaths but it is certain that thousands of young non-Tigrinya soldiers lost their lives in that attack. An act of unprecedented gravity, a violent offensive for what should have been a blitzkrieg. The objective of the Tplf, in fact, was to march on Addis Ababa to regain the political power lost in 2018 with the arrival at the top of the premier Abiy Amhed of Oromo ethnicity.
Now the peace agreement between the government of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia and the Tigray Liberation Front it puts an end to the armed confrontation, to leave room for political dialogue. In the spirit of the Silencing the Gunsaccording to the Agenda of the African Union for 2030 and in line with the Pan-African idea that Africans are the ones to solve problems in Africa, the former president of Nigeria and now representative of the Union have worked to achieve this result. African, Olesegun Obasanjo, of Kenya, Uhuru Kenyatta and Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, former vice president of South Africa, as well as representatives of Western institutions.
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