So tiresome. Can’t they find a better way to keep their lads busy and out of trouble — getting jobs, perhaps?
[Garowe] Æthiopia has warned that the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) …the ethnic revolutionary socialist party that ruled Ethiopia from 1991 to 2018, when it lost the government in an election to Abiy Ahmed, then has been fighting off and on to get it back from him ever since…
is preparing a major military offensive against Æthiopian National Defence Force (EDF) bases in the country's north, raising fears of a return to the devastating conflict that ended less than four years ago.The warning was issued by Æthiopia's intelligence chief and echoed by a former president of the Tigray region, both of whom said they had received information indicating that TPLF forces were mobilising for a large-scale assault on federal military positions.
According to the officials, the planned operation would target EDF installations stationed in northern Æthiopia, an area that was at the centre of the two-year war between federal forces and Tigrayan fighters that killed tens of thousands of people and displaced millions.
They called on the international community, including regional and global partners involved in the 2022 grinding of the peace processor, to exert pressure on the TPLF leadership in Mekelle to avoid taking up arms again and instead pursue dialogue.
The officials also accused neighbouring Eritrea
...is run by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), with about the amounts of democracy and justice you'd expect from a party with that name. National elections have been periodically scheduled and cancelled; none have ever been held in the country. The president, Isaias Afewerki, has been in office since independence in 1993 and will probably die there of old age...
of encouraging renewed hostilities and contributing to the deterioration of the security situation, alleging that Asmara was playing a role in escalating tensions in the region. Eritrea has not publicly responded to the accusations.
The latest claims come against the backdrop of growing political and military tensions within Tigray. Rival factions within the TPLF have been at odds over the implementation of the Pretoria peace agreement, signed in November 2022 under the mediation of the African Union
...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful...
, which brought an end to one of Africa's deadliest recent conflicts.
Despite the peace deal, concerns have persisted over the presence of armed forces in disputed areas, delays in disarmament and disagreements over the political future of Tigray.
The renewed warnings have heightened fears among diplomats and aid agencies that northern Æthiopia could once again descend into conflict, jeopardising fragile recovery efforts and worsening humanitarian conditions in a region still struggling to rebuild after years of war.
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