DECRYPTION – The country is struggling to emerge from two years of civil war and remains threatened by a serious humanitarian crisis.
The joint visit started Thursday by the French and German foreign ministers to Addis Ababa has the merit of having simple objectives. Above all, it is a question of supporting, by all possible means, the peace process which made it possible to put an end to an atrocious conflict in the north of Ethiopia. The agreements, signed in two stages in November, are sufficiently flexible and imprecise to adapt. But their success is uncertain while the resentments accumulated in recent years are still very present.
The clashes only broke out at the end of 2020, but tensions have been extreme since 2018. Abiy Ahmed was then promoted to the post of Prime Minister and began to reform a system of governance, very repressive and totally locked for three decades by the Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front (FLPT). This party, from the province of Tigray, accuses the government of ostracizing its region. New government hits back saying TPLF undermines reforms
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