More than half of Tigrayan forces have withdrawn from the frontlines, the forces' top commander said, a month after a ceasefire agreement aimed at ending the two-year conflict in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region.
"We have accomplished 65% disengagement of our army," Tadesse Wereda, commander-in-chief of the Tigray People's Liberation Front said in a video posted on the forces' official Facebook page late on Saturday.
War erupted in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region in November 2020, pitting the Tigrayan forces against federal troops and their allies that included fighters from the Amhara region that borders Tigray and Eritrean soldiers.In a surprise diplomatic breakthrough, however, the two sides signed a permanent cessation of hostilities in an African Union -mediated peace deal on Nov. 2 in South Africa.
"Our forces are still on the ground in those places due to the problems they are creating for our people. But we have even reduced numbers of our forces in those places."
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