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Commander-in-chief of the Tigray rebel forces says 65 percent of his forces “disengaged”, a key provision of a ceasefire agreement signed early last month to end the two-year conflict.
More than half of Tigrayan rebel forces have withdrawn from the frontlines, the forces’ top
commander said, a month after a ceasefire agreement aimed at
ending the two-year conflict in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray
region.
“We have accomplished 65 percent disengagement of our army,”
Tadesse Wereda, commander-in-chief of the Tigray People’s
Liberation Front (TPLF) said in a video posted on the forces’ Facebook page late on Saturday.
“Our army left the front lines and moved to the place
prepared for them to camp. Our forces withdrew on vehicles and
on foot.”
Ethiopian government spokesman Legesse Tulu did not respond
to requests for comment.
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Diplomatic breakthrough
In a surprise diplomatic breakthrough, the Ethiopian government and the Tigray rebels signed a permanent cessation of hostilities in an African Union (AU)-mediated peace deal on November 2 in South Africa.
A follow-up agreement on disarmament of TPLF rebel fighters, humanitarian access guarantees and entry of the Ethiopian military into the Tigrayan capital of Mekele was subsequently signed on November 12 in Kenya.
On Thursday the federal government said a joint committee mandated to draw a detailed plan for disarmament of the TPLF had begun its work and would finalise the plan in a few days.
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