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Ethiopia’s Largest Bank Resumes Service in Parts of Tigray

  • The Commercial Bank of Ethiopia said it restarted operations in some towns in the Tigray region after the federal government signed a peace deal with Tigrayan rebels last month (AFP)

Conflict Flares in Ethiopia’s Oromia Region

  • Government forces, Oromo Liberation Army fighters, and militants from the northern Amhara region have each launched attacks in the central Oromia region, according to the Ethiopian Human Rights Commission; the organization said hundreds of people have died and over one hundred thousand have been displaced (Bloomberg)

Electricity And Telecommunications Restored To Tigray

  • Electricity and telecommunications services have returned to parts of the country’s Tigray region since the government and rebel Tigrayan forces signed a cease-fire deal over a month ago, state media and a local hospital said (AP)

Eritrean Troops Reportedly Continue Attacks in Ethiopia Despite Truce

  • Ethiopia’s government signed a peace deal with rebels from the Tigray region on November 3, but troops from Eritrea, which supported the government’s forces, have continued to attack civilians in Tigray, Bloomberg reported (Bloomberg)

Humanitarian Aid Reaches Ethiopia’s Tigray Following Truce

  • A convoy from the International Committee of the Red Cross delivered aid to the war-torn Tigray region for the first time since August; the Ethiopian government and Tigrayan rebels signed a truce over the weekend that commits them to facilitating aid access to Tigray (AP)

Ethiopian Government, Tigrayan Rebels Announce Deal on Humanitarian Access

  • As part of talks to end Ethiopia’s civil war, both sides announced that they will facilitate humanitarian access to Tigray and neighboring regions (AFP)

New Round of Ethiopian-Tigrayan Peace Talks Begin

  • After establishing a telephone hotline to help maintain the deal, representatives met in Kenya to discuss the implementation of the truce agreed upon last week (Reuters)
  • Meanwhile, authorities from the Amhara region, whose forces gained control over significant territory in Tigray, released a statement expressing their support for the ceasefire but made no mention of disputed territory (Reuters)
  • Additionally, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) believes the truce would allow the resumption of aid deliveries to the Tigray region in the coming days (Reuters)

Peace Deal Calls For Full Tigrayan Disarmament

  • The peace deal that the federal government and Tigrayan rebels signed Wednesday calls for Tigrayan forces to fully disarm within thirty days, according to a copy of the deal seen by the New York Times; the details of the agreement have not been made public (NYT)

Ethiopian Government Agrees to Truce With Tigrayan Rebels

  • After two years of fighting, the Ethiopian government and rebel Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) agreed to end hostilities, disarm, and restore “law and order,” said Olusegun Obasanjo, the Horn of Africa envoy for the African Union (AU) (WaPo)
  • The AU-mediated truce has raised hopes for an end to a war that has killed tens of thousands of people and displaced millions (Reuters)
  • The AU stepped in to mediate after a cease-fire declared by the government in March fell apart after five months (NYT)
  • Obasanjo said the AU will monitor the implementation of the new peace deal, which stipulates that Ethiopia’s government will take control of Mekelle, the capital of the Tigray region, and that the TPLF will once again be recognized as a political party (NYT)
  • Eritrea, which sent troops to fight alongside the Ethiopian government’s forces, was not part of the talks (BBC)

Ethiopia, Tigray Forces Sign Truce

  • The Ethiopian government and Tigrayan forces signed a ceasefire agreement to end hostilities one day before the second anniversary of the start of the civil war (NYT)

Peace Talks Extended

  • Peace talks on Ethiopia’s civil war have been extended into this week, an unnamed official told the Associated Press (AP)

Drones Strikes Kill Civilians in Central Ethiopia

  • Witnesses claimed a series of drone strikes targeting the Oromo Liberation Army in the country’s Oromia region killed several dozen civilians last week (AP)

Fresh Round of Ethiopia Peace Talks Begins

  • The talks in South Africa today follow a surge of fighting in Ethiopia’s conflict between the federal government and rebels from the Tigray region; both sides have reportedly sent delegations to the African Union–led talks (AFP)

Ethiopian Government Advances in Tigray as UN Warns of Conflict ‘Spiraling Out of Control’

  • Ethiopia’s government said it captured three towns in the country’s Tigray region, escalating a two-year war between government forces and Tigrayan rebels after mediation attempts by the African Union fell through earlier this month. UN Secretary-General António Guterres warned that the conflict is “spiraling out of control,” with violence reaching “alarming levels” (AFP)
  • Guterres urged forces from neighboring Eritrea, which is assisting the Ethiopian government’s attacks in Tigray, to immediately withdraw; Eritrea recently began a forced conscription campaign to increase its manpower against the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) rebel group, a longtime foe (Bloomberg)

Ethiopian Government Forces Take Tigrayan City After Days of Air Strikes, Artillery Fire

  • The fighting in the city of Shire was some of the most intense Ethiopia has seen since a cease-fire was broken in August; hundreds of thousands of residents fled the city over the weekend (WaPo)

Tigray Forces Claim Eritrea Expanded War Offensive

  • Tigray forces released a statement detailing an “extensive offensive” launched by Eritrea in the northeastern towns of Rama, Zalambesa, and Tserona as they convene with the Ethiopian government to begin peace talks (AP)

Ethiopian Peace Talks Delayed

  • Tigray forces and two diplomatic sources stated that the African Union-led talks set to begin over the weekend in South Africa have been postponed due to logistical reasons (Reuters)
  • Meanwhile, countries at the United Nations voted to extend the monitoring mission in Ethiopia to investigate human rights violations, including suspected war crimes (Reuters)

Ethiopia Peace Talks Move Forward

  • Tigrayan rebel leaders said they will participate in the African Union–mediated peace talks with Ethiopia’s government that are expected to take place this weekend; government forces had previously confirmed their own participation (Al Jazeera)

Ethiopian Government Accepts African Union Offer for Peace Talks

  • The government accepted the African Union’s invitation for peace talks to end the government’s war with Tigrayan rebels; a diplomat said the African Union was still waiting for a response from the rebels (AP)

Tigray Rebels Announce Redeployment

  • The leadership of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) released a statement indicating their withdrawal from parts of the Amhara region as a tactical adjustment in response to the involvement of Eritrean forces along the northern border (VOA)
  • In addition, humanitarian workers in northern Tigray reported at least five civilians have died due to an airstrike on the town of Adi Daero; Tigray forces claimed the attack was launched by the Eritrean air force (AP)

Satellite Images Show Military Build-Up on Eritrean Border with Ethiopia

  • Images taken on September 26 reveal an increase in Ethiopian and Eritrean forces in the north-western town of Shiraro previously controlled by Tigrayans on the Ethiopian border with Eritrea (BBC)

UN Truck Damaged By Drone Strike in Tigray

  • The UN’s World Food Program reported that one of its trucks was hit with debris from an apparent drone strike as it was traveling to aid newly displaced people in the Zana district; the attack came after the Ethiopian government claimed Tigrayan forces were using UN-labeled trucks to transport fighters and warned humanitarian organizations against operating in the region (AP)

Drone Strike in Tigrayan Capital Kills One

  • Ayder Referral Hospital in Mekelle told reporters that a sixty-year-old cattle herder died on the way to the hospital after being injured by a drone strike in the city’s Adi Hawsi area (Reuters)

Tigray Region Faces Outbreak of Deadly Diseases as Vaccination Rates Plummet

  • The ongoing civil war in the Tigray region has led to a significant drop in vaccination rates causing childhood diseases such as measles, tetanus, and whooping cough to resurface (Reuters)
  • Meanwhile, the gap between Ethiopia’s official and black-market exchange rates has reached a record high as the country faces a foreign currency shortage (Bloomberg)

Speculation of Eritrean Offensive in Tigray

  • Forces in the Tigray region claimed that Eritrean troops have crossed the border and launched a full-scale offensive, with additional sources confirming the breakout of intense fighting along the border on Tuesday (Reuters)
  • Separately, the Commission of Human Rights Experts on Ethiopia, created by the UN Human Rights Council in 2021, published a report confirming that the Federal Government of Ethiopia and its allies have committed crimes against humanity in the Tigray region and warned of the further risk of atrocities should violence resume (OHCHR)