United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres has commended Nigeria’s former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, the African Union Mediator, for facilitating the signing of a peace deal between the Ethiopian Government and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front.
With the signing of the agreement, the parties in the conflict in Ethiopia’s northern region of Tigray have agreed on a “permanent cessation of hostilities” just more than a week after formal peace talks began in South Africa.
Guterres, in a statement by his spokesperson, Stephane Dujarric, said the agreement, signed on Wednesday in South Africa, represented “a critical first step” towards ending the brutal two-year war.
