The surprise Tigray truce

Hostilities are to cease in Ethiopia’s two-year civil war as Pretoria talks bring ‘dramatic breakthrough’

A truck burning out on a road in Ethiopia
Ethiopia’s two-year civil war may be coming to an end after a new peace agreement was signed
(Image credit: Eduardo Soteras / AFP via Getty Images)

There are hopes that Ethiopia’s brutal two-year civil war is coming to an end after the government and Tigrayan forces agreed to stop the fighting.

Just over a week after formal peace talks began in the South African capital of Pretoria, mediated by the African Union, delegates from the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) and the Ethiopian government have signed an agreement on a “permanent cessation of hostilities”.

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