Tigray’s dominant party accuses federal government of violating 2022 Pretoria Agreement, moves to restore regional assembly amid recent clashes and aid shortfalls.
Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) has announced the reinstatement of the Tigray Government Assembly, effectively challenging the interim post-war structure and igniting concerns over renewed conflict in northern Ethiopia.
In a Sunday Facebook statement, TPLF’s central committee declared it was resuming control of the suspended regional parliament “in the name of peace,” while accusing Addis Ababa of breaching the 2022 Pretoria Agreement—blaming withheld civil servant funds and provocations of internal armed clashes.
Getachew Reda, ex-TPLF spokesman and adviser to Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, called the move a “clear repudiation” of Pretoria’s framework, which established transitional bodies pending elections after the 2020-2022 war that killed 600,000 and displaced 5 million.
The conflict arose from TPLF’s fall from three decades of national dominance after Abiy’s 2018 rise; federal and Eritrean forces clashed with TPLF rebels until African Union mediation halted fighting.
Recent strains include January clashes between government troops and Tigrayan forces, plus drone strikes killing one, testing the fragile truce. Tigray’s humanitarian crisis worsens under U.S. President Donald Trump’s USAID cuts—its former top donor—with 80% of residents needing aid and health systems buckling.
