Ethiopia’s warring sides agree to stop hostilities, says envoy

Ethiopians protest against what they say is interference by outsiders in the country’s internal affairs and against the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), the party of Tigray’s fugitive leaders, at a rally organised by the city administration in the capital Addis Ababa (AP/PA)

Ethiopia’s warring sides have formally agreed to a permanent cessation of hostilities, an African Union special envoy has said, after a two-year which has killed hundreds of thousands.

Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, in the first briefing on the peace talks in South Africa, also said Ethiopia’s government and Tigray authorities have agreed on “orderly, smooth and coordinated disarmament”.