The Ethiopian government and the rebels from the Tigrai rebel group today (Wednesday) signed a cease-fire agreement in the country's bloody civil war, after more than two years of stubborn fighting without either side succeeding in overpowering its opponent.
The African Union, which acts as a mediator between the two warring factions, defined the signing of the agreement as "the dawn of a new day" after both sides pledged to allow humanitarian aid to reach all the fighting areas, which remained closed to foreign parties for the entire period of the fighting.
In recent months, the World Health Organization declared a severe food crisis in the Tigrai region in northern Ethiopia and claimed that 90 percent of the region's residents need food aid, with part of the population suffering from severe hunger and a third of the region's children suffering from malnutrition.
Between half a million and 800,000 people were killed in the fighting between the coalition of rebels and supporters of the government of the Ethiopian president, Abi Ahmed.
The war broke out in November of 2020 when President Ahmed announced a military operation to eliminate the military independence of the autonomy in the Tigrai region.
The Ethiopian army failed to recapture the rope and suffered heavy losses.
In April of this year, the rebels managed to break through the territory of the Tigrai region and advance towards the capital, Addis Ababa, but were stalled in battles near a critical crossroads west of the city.
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