Announcement from Tigray\u2019s main political party has sparked concern over the potential resumption of a deadly conflict in northern Ethiopia.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Published On 20 Apr 2026<\/span>20 Apr 2026<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Tigray\u2019s main political party has announced that it is taking back control of the region\u2019s government, effectively ending a peace deal between Ethiopia\u2019s federal government and the northern region.<\/p>\n The Tigray People\u2019s Liberation Front (TPLF) made the announcement in a Facebook post on Sunday, sparking fears of a resumption of the deadly conflict that raged between the government and regional forces between 2020 and 2022.<\/p>\n list of 4 items<\/span>end of list<\/span><\/section>\n The TPLF said its central committee \u201chas decided to reinstate the Tigray Government Assembly (parliament), which had been suspended in the name of peace\u201d.<\/p>\n The statement accused the federal government of violating the 2022 Pretoria Agreement, which ended the war, and of provoking armed conflict within the Tigray region. It also accused the government of withholding funds to pay local civil servants.<\/p>\n Getachew Reda, the party\u2019s former spokesman and an adviser to Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, said the TPLF\u2019s statement constituted \u201ca clear repudiation\u201d of the post-war structure created by the Pretoria Agreement.<\/p>\n The conflict stemmed from a breakdown in relations between the TPLF, a rebel-movement-turned-political party that dominated Ethiopian politics for nearly three decades, and Abiy, whose appointment as prime minister in 2018 ended the TPLF\u2019s dominance.<\/p>\n The war, in which at least 600,000 people were killed and some 5 million displaced, pitted federal forces, supported by the Eritrean army, against TPLF rebels.<\/p>\n The conflict ceased in late 2022 as the African Union mediated the Pretoria Agreement, which called for an interim administration to replace Tigray\u2019s elected bodies until new elections could be organised.<\/p>\n Despite progress in implementing the deal, it has come under strain in recent months.<\/p>\n In January, clashes erupted in Tigray, and one person was also killed in drone strikes in the northern region.<\/p>\n The Tigray province is also suffering the effects of United States President Donald Trump\u2019s funding cuts to the US Agency for International Development last year, which was once Ethiopia\u2019s largest source of humanitarian aid.<\/p>\n Humanitarian organisations say that up to 80 percent of the population needs emergency support, and funding shortfalls are placing a strain on the health system.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Announcement from Tigray\u2019s main political party has sparked concern over the potential resumption of a deadly conflict in northern Ethiopia. Published On 20 Apr 202620 Apr 2026 Tigray\u2019s main political party has announced that it is taking back control of the region\u2019s government, effectively ending a peace deal between Ethiopia\u2019s federal government and the northern […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19699,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-africa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19698\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inernews.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Headshot-1-1706763439.jpg?resize=96%2C96&quality=80)
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