The conflict lasts for two in this almost cut region of the world, plagued by a very serious humanitarian crisis. The decision acted on Saturday between the two stakeholders is part of the discussions on the implementation of the peace agreement signed with each other in early November.
Le Monde with AFP
It is a notable but fragile step towards the implementation of the peace agreement signed on November 2 between the Ethiopian government and the Popular Liberation of the Tiger (FPLT). The rebels and the Ethiopian federal authorities agreed, on Saturday, November 12, to grant “humanitarian access to all those in need in the tiger”, in the grip of two years to a deadly war, as well as “in neighboring regions”.
The agreement signed by Marshal Berhanu Jula, chief of staff of the Ethiopian armed forces (Endf), and General Tadesse Worede, commander-in-chief of the Tigerles rebel forces, takes place within the framework of the discussions in The Kenyan capital Nairobi on the implementation of the peace agreement signed in South Africa ten days ago.
According to former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, Special Envoy of the African Union (AU) for the Horn of Africa, this humanitarian access to the Tiger will be guaranteed “with immediate effect”.
“Silence the weapons”
“Our commitment is to bring stability and peace,” said Marshal Berhanu Jula during the meeting. This agreement is a way to “silence the arms”, according to former President Kényan Uhuru Kenyatta, another special envoy of the AU.
The Ethiopian federal authorities said on a statement published on Twitter on Saturday that “efforts are made to provide humanitarian aid to the majority of the Tiger region” controlled by the Endf. “The basic services are slowly restored in certain areas,” continues the press release.
Thursday, the government of Addis Abeba said that the aid “tributous like never before” in the tiger. The authorities also said they control around 70 % of the Tiger region. These statements “do not rely on any reality,” replied to the agency France-Presse Getachew Reda, spokesperson for the rebel authorities of the Tiger.
A tiger -based humanitarian worker also denied to the news agency any arrival of aid in this region of six million inhabitants, almost cut in the world and prey to a very serious humanitarian crisis. On Wednesday, the boss of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom, himself a Tigerian and former senior party from the rebel authorities, had already denounced the lack of aid in the tiger since The peace agreement signed in Pretoria.
Despite the peace agreement, access to part of northern Ethiopia, whose tiger, remains prohibited for journalists. It is therefore impossible to verify these assertions and to know the precise positions of the belligerents before or since the peace agreement.
behind closed doors “of the deadliest in the world”
Tiger fights resumed on August 24 after a five -month truce. The region is cut off from the rest of the country and private electricity, telecommunications, banking and fuel services. The road and air route of humanitarian aid is also completely interrupted since the resumption of fights.
The conflict began in November 2020, when Prime Minister Ethiopian Abyi Ahmed sent the Federal Army to arrest the regions of the region, who have been contested with his authority for months and that he accused of having attacked bases federal soldiers on site.
Initially defeated, the rebel forces of the Tiger resumed control of the major part of the region during 2021, during a counter-offensive. The rebels then fell to the tiger.
The assessment of this conflict marked by countless abuses, which took place largely in camera, is unknown. But the International Crisis Group (ICG) and Amnesty International (AI) describe it as “one of the deadliest in the world”. Crimes against humanity have been committed “by all” impunity “parties in the tiger, had accused Amnesty International on October 26, which did not exclude a” genocide “.
The war has also led to the displacement of more than two million Ethiopians and plunged hundreds of thousands of people in conditions close to famine, according to the UN.