{"id":44669,"date":"2026-06-12T12:34:26","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T12:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ethiopia\/all-news\/addis-ababa-tigray-front-eyes-new-offensive"},"modified":"2026-06-12T15:35:29","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T15:35:29","slug":"addis-ababa-tigray-front-eyes-new-offensive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ethiopia\/all-news\/addis-ababa-tigray-front-eyes-new-offensive","title":{"rendered":"Addis Ababa: Tigray Front Eyes New Offensive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"ap-article-header-tag\"> <strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Ethiopia. <\/strong> <\/span>Ethiopia has accused the Tigray People&#8217;s Liberation Front in the northern region of the country, which some of its factions seek to separate from Addis Ababa, of preparing to launch a new attack &#8220;within the coming days.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Ethiopian Minister of African Affairs, Getachew Reda, and the head of the intelligence agency, Redwan Hussein, stated in an opinion piece published on a local source&#8217;s website that the front is seeking to &#8220;instigate a new round of conflict&#8221; with the help of Eritrea, which has strained relations with Ethiopia.<\/p>\n<p>The officials considered that the Tigray People&#8217;s Liberation Front has engaged in forced recruitment in an attempt to turn the region into a &#8220;military rule,&#8221; asserting that the front is working to annul the Pretoria Agreement, which aims to end the ongoing war in Ethiopia.<\/p>\n<p>They pointed out that &#8220;resuming hostilities against the federal government in Ethiopia will have dire regional consequences.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Regarding the Pretoria Agreement, the officials acknowledged that it was not ideal, but it succeeded in &#8220;silencing the guns of war&#8221; and allowed a degree of normalcy to return to a region devastated by conflicts, as they expressed.<\/p>\n<p><b>Violation of the Pretoria Agreement<\/b><\/p>\n<p>In their published article on Thursday, the Ethiopian officials accused the front of &#8220;dissolving the interim regional administration and establishing its own illegal administration,&#8221; which they described as a &#8220;flagrant violation of the Pretoria Agreement.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Tigray region witnessed a bloody war between 2020 and 2022, fought between the rebel Tigray People&#8217;s Liberation Front and federal forces supported by armed groups and the Eritrean army.<\/p>\n<p>The conflict resulted in the deaths of at least 600,000 people, according to estimates from a local source.<\/p>\n<p>Fighting ceased for nearly three years following the signing of the peace agreement in Pretoria, but new clashes erupted between Tigray forces and the Ethiopian army in late 2025.<\/p>\n<p>In April of last year, the Tigray People&#8217;s Liberation Front reconstituted a local parliament that Addis Ababa considers &#8220;illegitimate,&#8221; in a direct challenge to the Ethiopian federal government.<\/p>\n<p>The Tigray People&#8217;s Liberation Front, in northern Ethiopia, represents the Tigray ethnic group living in central and northern Eritrea and in the eastern Ethiopian highlands within the Tigray region, where members of this group make up about 99.6% of the region&#8217;s population, and the front seeks to separate from the central Ethiopian state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ap-article-footer-note\">Find more news and analyses on <span class=\"ap-highlight-country\">Ethiopia<\/span> on the <span class=\"ap-highlight-brand\">Africa Press<\/span> website<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Ethiopia. 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