Tigrayan rebels agreed to “stop” of hostilities” on Friday new turning point in The war that lasted almost 17 months in Northern Ethiopia after government’s announcement of An unspecified humanitarian truce the previous day.
said the rebels in A statement sent by Agence France-Presse in the early hours of Friday morning said that it was “committed to implementing a moratorium of It urged the Ethiopian authorities to speed up the delivery of Emergency aid in Tigray, where hundreds of in thousands face famine.
Since the outbreak of the war out in November 2020, thousands died, many of them more They had to flee homes As the conflict spread from Tigray to neighboring regions of Amhara and Afar.
On Thursday, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed government She announced a sudden truce, saying she hoped to move It would facilitate humanity access for tigray and ‘pave way for The solution of dispute” in Northern Ethiopia.
she called on Tigray People’s Liberation Front to “stop all business of More aggression and withdrawal from the areas they occupied in Nearby areas “.
revolutionaries in In turn, he urged the Ethiopian authorities to go beyond empty promises and take concrete decisions steps To facilitate unrestricted humanitarian action access for Tigray”.
The conflict erupted when Abi sent troops to Tigray to overthrow the Tigray Liberation Front region’s former Rule partysaying move came in In response to rebel attacks on Army camps.
The fight has extended on for over a yearcausing a humanitarian crisis, as accounts surfaced of mass rapes and massacres, with Both sides charged of Human rights violations.
more than 400,000 people They were displaced in Tigray, according to the United Nations.
The region she has also It was under the jurisdiction of the United Nations says It is a de facto blockade.
The United States accused dad government of Preventing aid from reaching these people in need while the authorities, in In turn, he blamed the rebels for blockage;
nearly 40% of The people in Tigray, a region of 6,000,000 people face “Severe deficiency of The United Nations said in January, with Fuel shortages are forcing aid workers to deliver medicine and other vital supplies on foot.
chopped off-fire efforts
Western countries urge both sides to agree to stop-fire and with The United States, the European Union, the United Kingdom and Canada applauded the declaration of the armistice.
Minister of the United States of The state’s Anthony Blinken said the United States “is urging all parties to do so.” build on this is announcement to move forward with a negotiated and sustainable moratorium-fireincluding the necessary security arrangements.
The European Union welcomes the announcement of Humanitarian truce by the government of #Ethiopia and the statement on stood up of The EU delegation in Ethiopia said that “the hostilities by the Tigrayan authorities” on Twitter.
Diplomats led by Olusegun Obasanjo, African Union special envoy for horn of Africa, she was trying for months to broker peace talks, with Obviously a little progress so far.
The government Previously announced a “unilateral cessation-fire” in Tigray in June last yearafter TPLF launched a sudden comeback and regained region of the federal forces before expanding into Amhara and Afar.
But the fight intensified in The second half of 2021, with the rebels in one A point claiming to be within 200 kilometers (125 miles) of The capital, Addis Ababa, before hitting a dead end.
