Addis Ababa: The Tigray Front seeks to launch a new attack within days news

Ethiopia accused the forces of the Popular Front for the Liberation of the Tigray Region in the north of the country, some of its factions seeking to secede from Addis Ababa, of preparing to launch a new attack “in the coming days.”

The Ethiopian Minister of African Affairs, Getachew Reda, and the head of the Intelligence Service, Redwan Hussein, said in an opinion article published on the website of Al Jazeera English, that the Front seeks to “create a new round of conflict” with the help of Eritrea, whose relations with Ethiopia are tense.

The two officials considered that the forces of the Popular Front for the Liberation of the Tigray Region had engaged in forced recruitment operations, in an attempt to turn the region into “military rule,” stressing that the Front was working to cancel the Pretoria Agreement, which aims to put an end to the ongoing war in Ethiopia.

They noted that “the resumption of hostilities against the federal government in Ethiopia will have serious regional consequences.”

Speaking about the Pretoria Agreement, the two officials acknowledged that it was not ideal, but it succeeded in “silencing the guns of war” and allowed a measure of normalcy to return to a region devastated by conflicts, as they put it.

Violation of the Pretoria Agreement

In their article published yesterday, Thursday, the two Ethiopian officials accused the Front of having “dissolved the interim regional administration and established its own illegal administration,” in what they described as “a flagrant violation of the Pretoria Agreement.”

The Tigray region witnessed a bloody war between 2020 and 2022, which took place between the rebel Liberation Front forces on the one hand, and the federal forces supported by armed groups and the Eritrean army on the other hand.

The conflict has claimed the lives of at least 600,000 people, according to African Union estimates.

The fighting stopped for about three years after the signing of the peace agreement in Pretoria, but new confrontations broke out between Tigray forces and the Ethiopian army in late 2025.

Last April, the Tigray People’s Liberation Front reconstituted a local parliament that Addis Ababa considers “illegitimate”, in a direct challenge to the Ethiopian federal government.

The Popular Front for the Liberation of the Tigray Region, northern Ethiopia, is a representative of the Tigray ethnic group that lives in the central and northern parts of Eritrea, and in the eastern Ethiopian highlands within the Tigray Region, where the people of this group constitute about 99.6% of the region’s population, and the Front seeks to secede from the central Ethiopian state.