Ethiopia. A surprise agreement has been reached in the Ethiopian civil war, with both sides agreeing to halt their two-year conflict that has led to thousands of deaths and famine. Ethiopian government officials and representatives of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) have signed a disarmament plan and the restoration of crucial services, including aid supplies. The war began nearly two years earlier, on November 4, 2020, when forces loyal to Tigray’s ruling party, the TPLF, seized a military barracks, prompting the Ethiopian army to seize the region. This followed the breakdown of relations between the government and the TPLF, which had dominated Ethiopia for two decades until Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed came to power in 2018.
