Ethiopia’s government declares ‘indefinite humanitarian truce’ – The National

Ethiopia’s government declares ‘indefinite humanitarian truce’ – The National

Ethiopia's government on Thursday declared “an indefinite humanitarian truce effective immediately”, saying it hoped to hasten the delivery of emergency aid into the Tigray region, where hundreds of thousands face starvation.

“To optimise the success of the humanitarian truce, the government calls upon the insurgents in Tigray to desist from all acts of further aggression and withdraw from areas they have occupied in neighbouring regions,” the government said in a statement.

The government said Tigray’s forces must reciprocate the truce for the situation to improve in the region and called for further humanitarian support.