Reading time 1 minTwo years after the Pretoria agreements ended the Tigray war, what’s the situation on the ground? The conflict resulted in nearly 600,000 deaths, with Eritrean soldiers fighting alongside the Ethiopian federal army against the Tigray People’s Liberation Front. Its goal was to put an end to the conflict that broke out in November 2020 and wracked the northern Tigray region of Ethiopia for two years. Although the deal provided for the “withdrawal of foreign forces” – an implicit reference to Eritrean forces – the latter have not left the area. In several villages, the inhabitants live under the occupation of these Eritrean forces who impose their law, as they tell our correspondent in this report.
