The Ethiopian government and Tigrayan forces formally signed a truce Wednesday, raising hopes that two years of devastating war that threatened to tear apart Africa’s second-most-populous country might be coming to an end.
NAIROBI — “Both parties in the Ethiopian conflict have formally agreed to the cessation of hostilities as well as to systematic, orderly, smooth and coordinated disarmament, restoration of law and order, restoration of services, unhindered access to humanitarian supplies [and] protection of civilians,” said Olusegun Obasanjo, the African Union’s high representative for the Horn of Africa.
The agreement was announced on live television and was praised by Redwan Hussien, the national security adviser to Ethiopia’s federal government, and Getachew Reda from the TPLF. Getachew said fighters and civilians were dying as he spoke, calling for the deal to be “immediately implemented.”The conflict broke out in November 2020, after Tigrayan soldiers seized military bases across Tigray following months of worsening relations between the central government and the TPLF, which dominated national politics for nearly three decades until the appointment of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed in 2018.
Doctors at Ayder Referral Hospital, the biggest in Tigray, said Wednesday that they had stopped offering dialysis because they had run out of medical supplies. One described nurses weeping as they sent home a much-loved patient to die a few weeks ago, his lungs filling with fluid because he could not be treated.
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