Ethiopia declares an “indefinite humanitarian truce” in the Tigre conflict

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Addis Ababa, 24 Mar The Ethiopian Government today declared an “indefinite humanitarian truce” with immediate effect on the conflict that has been facing rebels in the northern region of Tigre since November 2020. “This decision is being made to ensure the free flow of emergency humanitarian aid for all those who need it,” the Ethiopian government said in a statement released through its social networks this Thursday, after months of a “de facto blockade” in the region, as reported by the United Nations. Since the start of the war on November 4, 2020, when Addis Ababa ordered an offensive against the Popular Front for the Liberation of Tigre (FPLT), the party that ruled the region, thousands of people have died and some two million people have left their homes due to violence, according to the UN.