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South Sudan’s President, Rebel Leader Sign Peace Deal

September 12, 2018TesfaNewsLeave a Comment

BY AGENCIES * South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir and rebel leader Riek Machar signed a peace agreement on Wednesday in the margins of a regional summit in Ethiopia. South Sudan plunged into warfare two years after gaining independence from Sudan in 2011 when a political dispute between Kiir and Machar exploded into military confrontation.

Ethiopia and TPDM Rebels Sign Peace Deal

August 28, 2018TesfaNewsLeave a Comment

BY SHABAIT The Tigray People’s Democratic Movement (TPDM) has reached an agreement with the government of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia to continue its movement through peaceful means.

Eritrea and Ethiopia Signed Joint Declaration of Peace and Friendship

July 9, 2018November 22, 2022TesfaNews4 Comments

Ethiopia and Eritrea declare end of war BY ALJAZEERA NEWS The leaders of Ethiopia and Eritrea signed a “joint declaration of peace and friendship”, Eritrea’s information minister said, a day after a landmark summit marked a start to normalization of ties between the longtime foes.

Ethiopia: Eritrean Delegation Expected Tomorrow

June 25, 2018June 26, 2018TesfaNewsLeave a Comment

BY TESFANEWS Spokesperson of the Ethiopian Foreign Ministry, Meles Alem, announced that the first Eritrean delegation is expected to arrive in Addis Ababa this week [Tuesday] for the first time in two decades after surprising gestures by both sides aimed at ending one of Africa’s longest-running conflicts.

Tigray People Protests Implementation of Peace Deal With Eritrea

June 11, 2018June 12, 2018TesfaNewsLeave a Comment

If the minority people of Tigray are looking to pin the blame for the border war and outcome of the Boundary Commission Decision on someone, they need to look no further than TPLF. BY AARON MAASHO | REUTERS For the residents of Badme, a desolate border town in the war-scarred badlands between Ethiopia and Eritrea, […]

South Sudan Peace Deal Monitors Urge Action Amid Fears of Collapse

November 27, 2015November 27, 2015TesfaNews2 Comments

By AFP, Ceasefire monitors in South Sudan urged warring forces Thursday to stop fighting amid growing international fears a key peace deal is close to collapse. Fighting in the nearly two-year long war rages despite an August agreement, said Festus Mogae, who heads the Joint Monitoring and Evaluation Commission (JMEC), set up by the regional […]

Is the latest peace accord in South Sudan the real deal?

Another Peace Deal Unravels in South Sudan

October 10, 2015TesfaNews1 Comment

By Jason Patinkin | for IRIN, South Sudan’s latest peace deal is unravelling as fighting picks up and a new declaration by President Salva Kiir threatens the most delicately struck parts of the agreement. Kiir, an ethnic Dinka, and rebel leader Riek Machar, a Nuer, signed a peace deal last month meant to end 21 […]

President Kiir Feels Treated Like Schoolboy, Won’t Attend UNGA

September 19, 2015September 19, 2015TesfaNews4 Comments

By AFP, South Sudan’s president will snub a UN meeting aimed at boosting peace efforts because he feels he was summoned there like a “schoolboy”, a minister said Friday. United Nation Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon invited President Salva Kiir and his arch-rival, rebel leader Riek Machar, to New York later this month in a bid to […]