For most people in the volatile Tigray region, the two-year war fought against Ethiopian federal forces with support from the Eritrean Army didn’t really end with the Pretoria peace agreement in November 2022.
“What was left of the Pretoria Agreement’s security framework is rapidly collapsing, with former comrades-in-arms now clashing, civilians again fleeing in fear, and Addis Ababa’s authority in the region becoming increasingly tenuous,” columnist Hafed Al-Ghwell wrote in a March 29 opinion piece for the Arab News daily newspaper.
The instability has observers fearing that Ethiopia’s northern neighbor will increase its involvement militarily.
“Neighboring Eritrea is watching these developments with growing alarm — and, naturally, some sense of opportunism.” Read more…