The hostilities in Tigray, which began in 2020, have killed, raped, displaced and starved tens of thousands of people. This cease-fire declared a day ago by the Ethiopian government is a good thing for observers and humanists who had remained powerless over this war.
Tigray and the federal government of Ethiopia have been in armed conflict for two years. After a cease-fire that failed in 2021, both actors are trying to end these tragedies. They have therefore found a common agreement to put down their arms once and for all, on November 2nd.
The violence, which began on November 4, 2020, was the result of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) and Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) revolt against the Ethiopian federal government. They wanted to stop the ethnocentric political system, in place since 1994.