Making peace will “be very difficult after the terrible war of the past two years” in northern Ethiopia, European Foreign Minister Josep Borrell said on Friday.
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Rebel authorities in the Ethiopian region of Tigray accused the army on Friday (November 4th) of having carried out a drone strike on civilians on Thursday despite the cessation of hostilities concluded on November 2nd in Pretoria (South Africa).
“An Ethiopian drone attacked civilians yesterday in Maychew, Tigray”said on Twitter Kindeya Gebrehiwot, a spokesman for the rebel authorities, also mentioning “artillery bombardments on the city having killed and injured civilians”. He added that “this happened after the signing of the peace agreement in Pretoria”concluded between the Ethiopian federal government and the Tigrayan rebels, under the aegis of the African Union (AU).
This information could not be verified by an independent source, access to northern Ethiopia being forbidden to journalists and very uncertain telecommunications networks in Tigray, almost cut off from the world for more than a year. Asked by AFP, neither the Ethiopian government nor the AU reacted immediately to these accusations and Kindeya Gebrehiwot could not be reached.
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed took part in a meeting on Friday during which his national security adviser, Redwan Hussein, presented the“agreement for a lasting peace through a permanent cessation of hostilities” signed in Pretoria, according to the media Fana BC, close to the government. make peace go “to be very difficult after the dreadful war of the past two years” in northern Ethiopia, said the head of European diplomacy, Josep Borrell, for his part on Friday.
This Friday marks the second anniversary of the extremely deadly war between the Ethiopian federal government and the rebel authorities of Tigray that ravaged northern Ethiopia.