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Obasanjo, Kenyatta to facilitate AU-led Ethiopia/Tigray peace talks in South Africa

By Mwangi Maina

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Posted on October 24, 2022 10:51

© Kenya’s Uhuru Kenyatta meets Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia February 6, 2022. Presidential Press Service/Handout via REUTERS — Kenya’s Uhuru Kenyatta meets Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia February 6, 2022. Presidential Press Service/Handout via REUTERS

Representatives from Ethiopia and from the Tigrayan government are both set to attend today’s peace talks in South Africa that will be mediated by the African Union. It’s the second official call to peace talks after a first attempt fell apart at the start of the month.

The AU is seeking to end the civil war that has been raging in Ethiopia for nearly two years. Its efforts to lead the peace process have been “widely perceived as responding inadequately to the situation’’ in Ethiopia, according to Rashid Abdi, a Horn of Africa analyst.

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