Enderta in Ethiopia's Tigray region (file). Photo: Mahderey via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Tigray peace deal frays four years after Pretoria pact.
Nearly four years after Ethiopia's federal government and the Tigray People's Liberation Front signed the Pretoria Agreement in November 2022, the peace it secured is showing signs of strain, with the TPLF rearmed and repositioned even as the wider war has not resumed.
The deal ended two years of fighting that killed hundreds of thousands of people and displaced about 1.9 million Tigrayans, many of whom remain unable to return home. It required disarmament and political dialogue, but left unresolved questions over Tigray's borders and governance.
The TPLF has since regained control of Tigray's political institutions, with Debretsion Gebremichael elected regional president in May 2026. Reports point to renewed recruitment and mobilisation despite the disarmament terms, closer contacts with Eritrea, and TPLF's entry into Tsimdo, a coalition of groups opposed to the federal government.
Flashpoints multiply
Clashes broke out in Tselemt district in January and again near the Sudan border in August, involving Fano and Oromo Liberation Army fighters as well as Eritrean forces. "The people of Tigray want peace; we don't want a second war," one civilian said.
With disputed territory, an armed and reorganised TPLF and a federal government preoccupied elsewhere, diplomats say the risk of a return to conflict in Ethiopia's north is rising again.
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Nearly four years after Ethiopia’s federal government and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front signed the Pretoria Agreement in November 2022, the peace it secured is showing signs of strain, with the TPLF rearmed and repositioned even as the wider war has not resumed.
The deal ended two years of fighting that killed hundreds of thousands of people and displaced about 1.9 million Tigrayans, many of whom remain unable to return home. It required disarmament and political dialogue, but left unresolved questions over Tigray’s borders and governance.
The TPLF has since regained control of Tigray’s political institutions, with Debretsion Gebremichael elected regional president in May 2026. Reports point to renewed recruitment and mobilisation despite the disarmament terms, closer contacts with Eritrea, and TPLF’s entry into Tsimdo, a coalition of groups opposed to the federal government.
Flashpoints multiply
Clashes broke out in Tselemt district in January and again near the Sudan border in August, involving Fano and Oromo Liberation Army fighters as well as Eritrean forces. “The people of Tigray want peace; we don’t want a second war,” one civilian said.
With disputed territory, an armed and reorganised TPLF and a federal government preoccupied elsewhere, diplomats say the risk of a return to conflict in Ethiopia’s north is rising again.
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