AU urges immediate ‘halt’ to fighting in northern Ethiopia

The African Union on Friday said it was deeply concerned about “escalating tensions between local communities” in a disputed area of northern Ethiopia and asked all parties to “urgently halt hostilities”.

AU Commission chairman Moussa Faki Mahamat “calls on both sides to urgently halt hostilities and ensure the safety of civilians to end the renewed displacement of the local population,” the AU said in a statement. Amhara forces occupied Raya Alamata in southern Tigray during a two-year war between Ethiopia’s government and regional Tigrayan authorities.

The Amhara regional administration last week accused the Tigray People’s Liberation Front party , which controls Tigray, of “invading” Raya Alamata and other areas “which have identity questions”.

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