Tigray’s main political party said it was taking back control of the \u200bregion’s government, effectively voiding a peace deal with Ethiopia’s federal government that ended one of the century’s deadliest conflicts.<\/p>\n
The \u200cTigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) made the statement in a Facebook post on Sunday, accusing the federal government of violating the Pretoria Agreement, which ended the two-year war. The statement said the government had provoked armed conflict within Tigray, withheld funds to pay regional civil servants and extended the tenure of the interim administration’s president without \u200bconsulting the party.<\/p>\n
“It (the federal government) is in a hurry to launch a bloody war once again,” the statement said.<\/p>\n
The announcement \u200bprompted Getachew Reda, the party’s former spokesman and an adviser to Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, to write \u2060on X on Sunday that the TPLF’s statement constituted “a clear repudiation” of the post-war structure created by the Pretoria Agreement.<\/p>\n
“The international community must … \u200bact to stave off the threat of a catastrophic conflict in a region that can ill afford one,” said Getachew, who served as president \u200bof Tigray’s interim administration before falling out with the TPLF and being replaced in the role last year.<\/p>\n
Prime Minister Abiy’s spokesperson, Billene Seyoum, did not respond to a request for comment about the TPLF’s claims.<\/p>\n
TPLF officials could not immediately be reached for comment.<\/p>\n
The 2020 to 2022 civil war fought between TPLF-led forces and Ethiopia’s \u200bnational army killed hundreds of thousands of people through direct violence, the collapse of healthcare and famine, according to researchers.<\/p>\n
The war stemmed from \u200ba breakdown in relations between the TPLF, a guerrilla movement turned political party that dominated Ethiopian politics for nearly three decades, and Abiy, whose appointment as \u200cprime minister \u2060in 2018 ended the TPLF\u2019s dominance.<\/p>\n
The war ceased in late 2022 with the Pretoria Agreement, mediated by the African Union, which called for an interim administration for Tigray, established through dialogue between the two sides, to replace the region’s elected bodies until new elections could be organised.<\/p>\n
Despite some progress implementing the deal, it has come under strain in recent months, with armed skirmishes breaking out since January between TPLF forces and \u200bthe federal army and government-aligned fighters.<\/p>\n
TPLF \u200bTO STRENGTHEN REGIONAL TIES<\/strong><\/p>\n In response to \u2060the government’s alleged violations, the TPLF said in its statement it would restore the Tigrayan executive and legislature in place of the interim administration and would strengthen friendships with people from neighbouring Ethiopian regions and \u200bcountries.<\/p>\n The federal government has previously affirmed its commitment to the Pretoria Agreement and accused the TPLF of \u200bplotting against it \u2060with Eritrea, which won its independence from Ethiopia in 1993. The two countries fought a border war from 1998 to 2000.<\/p>\n Reuters could not independently verify the TPLF’s claims about the government’s alleged violations of the peace deal.<\/p>\n African Union spokesperson Nuur Mohamed was not immediately available for comment on the TPLF’s \u2060decision to \u200brestore the prior administration.<\/p>\n The TPLF and Eritrea have denied working together. Eritrea, which signed \u200bits own peace deal with Ethiopia in 2018, fought in support of Ethiopia’s army during the civil war in Tigray but has more recently bristled at what it views \u200bas threatening comments by Abiy asserting landlocked Ethiopia has a right to sea access.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tigray’s main political party said it was taking back control of the \u200bregion’s government, effectively voiding a peace deal with Ethiopia’s federal government that ended one of the century’s deadliest conflicts. The \u200cTigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) made the statement in a Facebook post on Sunday, accusing the federal government of violating the Pretoria Agreement, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":19361,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_comment_section":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"1"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","source_name":"Reuters","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,2362,33,1129],"tags":[114,534,44],"class_list":["post-20562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-east-africa","category-featured","category-politics","category-security","tag-ethiopia","tag-tigray","tag-tigray-peoples-liberation-front-tplf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20562","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20562"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20563,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20562\/revisions\/20563"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qiraatafrican.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}