Ethiopia’s latest conflict has intensified in recent months with a surge in drone attacks seemingly targeting civilians.
The negotiations in Tanzania followed talks in April and May that also failed to produce an agreement.
Ethiopia’s dreams of building a new ‘great power’ in its neighbourhood should worry all Africans.
Many people say they can’t return home despite ceasefire because Ethiopian allied forces still occupy parts of region.
UN experts say Ethiopia and its allies, including Eritrea, are still violating human rights in the Tigray region.
The conflict is Ethiopia’s biggest security crisis since a two-year civil war in the Tigray region ended in November.
The announcement comes as fighting across Ethiopia’s second most populous region develops into a security crisis.
The whereabouts of hundreds of fighters on both sides of the Ethiopian war are still not known, despite truce.
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Tigray residents say Eritrean troops and soldiers from the neighbouring Amhara region are yet to leave, despite a truce.
Catholic Relief Services workers were killed amid unrest due to government decision to disband regional security forces.
The move comes a day after Ethiopia’s parliament voted to remove the TPLF from a list of ‘terrorist’ organisations.
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken says Ethiopian, Eritrean and Amhara forces committed crimes against humanity.
Blinken’s trip is latest in a series of visits to Africa by senior US officials amid competition from China and Russia.
Abiy Ahmed holds first face-to-face talks with Tigrayan leaders since a peace deal was agreed in November.
