The Pretoria Agreement: mere cessation of hostilities or heralding a new era in Ethiopia?
The Pretoria Agreement: mere cessation of hostilities or heralding a new era in Ethiopia?
On 2 November 2022, welcome news came from Pretoria, South Africa. After 10 days of negotiations, the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (FDRE) and the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) signed a Cessation of Hostilities Agreement. This piece situates the importance of the war, and more importantly the agreement, within the longue durée of Ethiopian politics and highlights its importance as a turning point marking the end of the era of the dominance of the TPLF and the beginning of the end of ethno-nationalism's hegemonic centrality to national politics, including at the expense of the Ethiopian state.
CITATION: Gebresenbet, Fana. The Pretoria Agreement: mere cessation of hostilities or heralding a new era in Ethiopia? . Oxon : Taylor & Francis Group , 2023. Review of African Political Economy, Volume 50, Number 175, 2023, pp. 96-106 - Available at: https://library.au.int/frpretoria-agreement-mere-cessation-hostilities-or-heralding-new-era-ethiopia