Ethiopia’s military says members of the Amhara region special forces have started leaving the country’s Tigray region two months after a peace agreement in the Tigray conflict. The Tigray forces have been especially vocal about the need for the Eritreans to leave. The Amhara forces’ withdrawal could not be independently confirmed. The Amhara special forces, like all sides in the conflict, have been implicated in human rights violations in the fighting that began in November 2020. Members of the special forces still control western Tigray, which Amhara authorities have asserted is theirs.

Source: Ethiopian News January 13, 2023 12:45 UTC