The foreign ministers of Germany and France have arrived in Ethiopia to support a November peace deal between federal and Tigray authorities to end two years of brutal war. Annalena Baerbock and Catherine Colonna met Thursday with Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed as part of their diplomatic outreach. The November deal has seen steady progress with basic services restored to the Tigray region, increased aid, and a first handover of heavy weapons by the Tigray People’s Liberation Front to Ethiopia’s federal forces. The AU brokered the Tigray peace deal and its monitors arrived in the region this month to oversee its implementation. The U.N. says millions were displaced in the war and more than five million Tigrayans need humanitarian aid.

Source: Ethiopian News January 13, 2023 04:39 UTC