Tigray to restore pre-war administration, jeopardising northern Ethiopia peace

Tigray's main political party said it was taking back control of the region's government, effectively voiding a peace deal with Ethiopia's federal government that ended one of the century's deadliest conflicts.



The Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) made the statement in a Facebook post on Sunday, accusing the federal government of violating the Pretoria Agreement, which ended the two-year war. The statement said the government had provoked armed conflict within Tigray, withheld funds to pay regional

civil servants and extended the tenure of the interim administration's president without consulting the party.



"It (the federal government) is in a hurry to launch a bloody war once again," the statement said.