Ethiopia's Tigray Conflict: Truce Agreed [View all]

Source: BBC

A surprise deal has been reached in the Ethiopian civil war with both sides agreeing to halt their two-year conflict which led to thousands of deaths and warnings of a famine.

The African Union (AU) has called it a new "dawn", AFP news agency says.

The agreement between the Ethiopian government and Tigrayan forces should allow aid deliveries to resume.

Almost 90% of people in the northern Tigray region need food aid, the World Health Organization says.

About a third of the region's children are suffering from malnutrition.

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Whether or not this truce will hold remains an open question

But they have agreed both to allowing full humanitarian aid freely into Tigray and to mutually standing down mobilization/arms

important news in a war on the scale of Ukraine