Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has held his first face-to-face talks on Friday with Tigrayan leaders since a peace deal was inked ending two years of war, officials and state media said.
Abiy met senior leaders of the Tigray region forces on Friday about three months since the Addis Ababa government and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front signed agreements to permanently cease hostilities. The conflict, which has at times spilled out of Tigray into the neighboring regions of Amhara and Afar, has killed thousands of people, displaced millions from their homes, and left hundreds of thousands on the brink of famine.
Local residents and aid workers have said the Eritrean army and forces from the neighboring region of Amhara remain in parts of Tigray and accuse them of murder, rape, and looting. Eritrean forces have been accused of some of the conflict’s worst abuses, including gang rapes.
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