Ethiopia accuses the Tigray Front and Eritrea of planning a new military escalation
Two officials were charged by preparing to launch against the federal government in the coming days.
Getachew Reda and Radwan Hussein, in an opinion article published on the website of Al Jazeera English, said that the front is preparing for"Creating a new round of conflict" With the help of Eritrea, in light of the escalating tension between Addis Ababa and Asmara.
Tigray People’s Liberation Front
The two officials added that the Front had taken a decision to…"Launching an attack against the federal government in the coming days"While there has been no comment yet from the Tigray People’s Liberation Front on these accusations, according to what was reported by Agence France-Presse.
The Tigray region witnessed a bloody war between 2020 and 2022, which took place between the Front’s forces and the federal forces supported by armed groups and the Eritrean army.
The conflict resulted in the deaths of at least 600,000 people, according to African Union estimates, while experts believe that The actual toll may be higher.
Pretoria Peace Agreement
The fighting stopped after the signing of the Pretoria Peace Agreement, but new confrontations broke out between Tigray forces and the Ethiopian army in late 2025.
Last April, the Tigray People’s Liberation Front reconstituted a local parliament that the federal government considers illegitimate, in a move that Addis Ababa described as a direct challenge to its authority.
/>The two Ethiopian officials accused the Front of dissolving the interim regional administration and establishing its own administration, considering that this represented a flagrant violation of the Pretoria Agreement.
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