(Security): AU, Ethiopia In Talks on Tigray Region

 

Ambassador Bankole Adeoye, African Union Commissioner for Political Affairs, Peace, and Security, has met with Field Marshal Berhanu Jula, chief of general staff of the Ethiopian National Defense Forces (ENDF) and discussed the AU-led Pretoria Permanent Cessation of Hostilities Agreement, Addis Standard reports. 

According to Bankole, the "positive impact" of the November 2022 peace agreement between the federal government and Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) and the "imperative to have a well-defined disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration (DDR) programme in the Tigray region for enhanced collective security in the Horn of Africa," was also discussed.

Conflict between Ethiopia and Tigray region escalated into a full-scale war in November 2020. Millions of people were displaced and fled to neighbouring countries such as Sudan. Attempts at an AU-led peaceful resolution commenced in October 2022 and ended with the signing of a peace deal in the city of Tshwane (formerly Pretoria) in South Africa on November 2, 2022.

Since the agreement, the Tigray region has seen the installation of its own interim leader Getachew Reda, who was spokesperson for the TPLF.

OneForumNews1