Up to 600,000 people may have been killed in two years of conflict in Ethiopia's Tigray region, an African Union official said on Sunday. “The number of people killed was about 600,000,” Olusegun Obasanjo, the African Union's lead mediator in the peace talks and former president of Nigeria, told the Financial Times. AFPUnder the peace deal, disarmament for the northern region should take place “concurrently” with the withdrawal of foreign forces that are not part of the Ethiopian national army. But a humanitarian worker in the city of Shire told Reuters that Amhara forces were still there in “significant numbers”. Flights between Addis Ababa and Tigray have already begun reuniting families torn apart by the war.

Source: Ethiopian News January 16, 2023 15:11 UTC