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Is war between Ethiopia & Eritrea inevitable?: Mehdi Hasan & Getachew Reda
Mehdi Hasan debates Getachew Reda on his alliance with Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and justice for the war in Tigray.
Mehdi Hasan debates Getachew Reda on his alliance with Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and justice for the war in Tigray.
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.
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.
Ethiopia has a managed exchange rate for the birr, whose official value to the dollar is half the black market rate.
The disarmament is a key part of the peace deal signed two months ago between the government and the rebel group.
![In this Friday, May 7, 2021 file photo, fighters loyal to the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) walk along a street in the town of Hawzen, then-controlled by the group, in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia [Ben Curtis, AP]](https://www.aljazeera.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/AP21223403299422.jpg?resize=770%2C513&quality=80)
