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Ethiopia: Unresolved Elements in Pretoria Agreement, TPLF Voices Concerns ADDIS ABABA - On the milestone marking two years since the Cessation of Hostilities Agreement, better known as the Pretoria Agreement, the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) expressed their dissatisfaction with numerous unresolved matters. Many issues are still dangling in limbo despite the deadlines set in Pretoria and later restated in Nairobi. The TPLF, entangled in its own internal disputes, recognized the agreement's significant…

Seven million folks in northern Ethiopia want pressing assist: UN ADDIS ABABA - The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) stated on Thursday that 7 million folks within the Tigray area of northern Ethiopia wanted pressing assist. "For more than a year, a de facto blockade has deprived 7 million people in Tigray of urgently needed healthcare and access to food. People are dying," stated the…

The Ethiopian parliament on Tuesday lifted a state of emergency imposed in November final yr when Tigrayan rebels threatened to advance towards the capital, the Foreign Ministry introduced and eased restrictions sooner than anticipated. "The people's representatives of #Ethiopia have today approved the revocation of the six-month state of emergency," the ministry mentioned on Twitter. The vote by lawmakers adopted a proposal by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's cupboard final month to ease the state of…

NAIROBI, Kenya - The Director of Ethiopia's National Intelligence and Security Service Temesgen Tiruneh vowed to crush the Tigray protection forces , which continued to shut in on Amhara and Afar territories, additional complicating the Tigray War. The intelligence chief has additionally stepped up the tough criticism towards foreign nations he accused of saving the TDF. He didn't, nevertheless, point out the nations he suspected of serving to the Tigray rebels. In a press release on Facebook, Temesgen, who was the…

ENDF condemns troopers "working with" TDF as Tigray battle takes form ADDIS ABABA - Conflict in Ethiopia's Tigray area seems removed from over, following current disciplinary motion in opposition to quite a lot of Ethiopian nationwide protection forces , after days of army trial within the Horn of Africa nation. According to the Addis Ababa Standard, the southern command army court docket has…

NAIROBI, Kenya - According to state media reports, the commander-in-chief of the Tigraya Defense Force surrendered to the Ethiopian National Defense Force . Colonel Gebrehivot Gebreaelaf, a respected commander in the TDFranks, reportedly deserted on Saturday, which could significantly affect the advancementofTigray's army, which is movinginto Afar and Amhara in northern Ethiopia.State media reported that Colonel Gebrechivot Gebreaelaf sidedwithGasaiwithhim. TDF spokesman Getachew Rada was not available for comment, but…

TDF children and soldiers among thousands detained in Oromia, Ethiopia NAIROBI, Kenya - A number of young children are among those held by Ethiopian authorities, it has been said, in the new wave of detentions targeting Tigrayans, on suspicion of supporting the Tigray Defense Force. . In an interview with The Associated Press on a hidden phone, one of the detainees described the harsh conditions…

NAIROBI, Kenya - With the Ethiopian conflict now spreading from Tigray to other neighboring states such as Afar and Amhara, it has been reported that the Ethiopian national defense forces have used sophisticated drones from Iran in their operations. The Tigray Defense Forces who particularly disagreed with the Federal Army, has often claimed that the military uses armed drones from an air base in neighboring Eritrea. For a time, the only firm, open source evidence of the Ethiopian government's use of drones were…

NAIROBI, Kenya - The Ethiopian federal government announced the arrest of at least 32 people believed to be agents of the Tigray Defense Forces , a faction in the Tigray region thatconflicts with the authorities in Addis Ababa. The commission said Tuesday it had arrested 32 TDF officers trying to cross the border into the region into Ethiopia inorder to carry out the group's destructive activities in the country. The 32 people are currently in police custody awaiting trial. State media alleged the suspects were TDF…

NAIROBI, Kenya - Human Rights Watch report suggests Ethiopian authorities arbitrarily detained, forcibly disappeared, and committed other abuses against Tigrayans in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, in what now Tigray Defense Forces confirms allegations of mass killings in the Tigray region. HRW now wants the Ethiopian authorities to immediately report on the enforced disappearance of the Tigrayans, release those detained without credible evidence of a crime, and end all discriminatory treatment. On June 28, after…