After two years of indecisive fighting, thousands of dead and millions of refugees, the Ethiopian government and the rebels signed a ceasefire intended to bring an end to the war in the country.
A war that started in the north of the country, where the Tigrai region is located, but from there the fire spread to the center of Ethiopia and almost reached the capital Addis Ababa while threatening to collapse the entire country.
The agreement that surprised many is a step in the right direction that will ease the plight of millions of ordinary citizens who were not at all a party to the battles who paid a heavy price due to the destruction caused by the war.
It is no wonder that the secretary of the Organization for African Unity, which unites all the countries of the continent, hastened to announce that this is "the beginning of a new dawn for Ethiopia and the entire black continent".
win once
Despite the achievement, it is difficult to assume that the Prime Minister of Ethiopia, Abiy Ahmed, who signed it, will win the Nobel Peace Prize.
This is not only because the agreement is only the beginning of a long road that is by no means certain to end the war, but because Abiy Ahmed has already won the Nobel Peace Prize, in 2019, after bringing to an end another bloody war, as unnecessary as the current one, between Ethiopia and neighboring Eritrea .
This, which used to be part of Ethiopia, won its independence in 1993 after a long struggle, and in the last decade went to war with the mother country for control of several towns.
Since the assassination of Emperor Haile Selassie in 1974, by General Menigstu Haile Mariam who ruled the country under a reign of oppression and terror, Ethiopia has not known a single moment of peace.
In recent decades, it has repeatedly found itself immersed in conflicts at home, between nearly 300 different ethnic and tribal groups that make up Ethiopian society, and abroad with all its neighbors, primarily Somalia and Eritrea.
Fortunately for the Jewish community, Israel managed to come out of the twilight of Mengistu's rule, who asked for Israel's help in order to ensure the continuation of his rule and agreed to allow it to expel the Jews from his country.
One confrontation and then another
The coming to power in 2018 of the current Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed, seemingly heralded the beginning of a new era in the country.
Abey brought an end to the war with Eritrea and also sought to bring about reforms in the fields of economy and society.
But his ascension to power weakened the power of the Tigrai people who until then enjoyed hegemony in the government systems.
These rebelled against the government and it went into depression.
The war had its ups and downs, both sides recorded certain victories, but at the end of the day the battles ended in nothing and a stalemate that led the parties to a ceasefire.
But in Ethiopia, the end of one conflict is merely the beginning of a new one, and all that remains is to wait and see whether it will be a conflict with Cairo over the Renaissance Dam that the Ethiopians built on the Nile River and threatens to deprive the Egyptians of the river's water, or whether there will be a renewed struggle between the various groups that make up the the state
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