Ethiopian Informer
ADDIS ABABA: Chairperson of the African Union (AU) Commission, Moussa Faki Mahamat, has called on parties to the conflict in Ethiopia to engage in negotiation and deescalate confrontations.
“The Chairperson strongly calls for the immediate cessation of hostilities and urges the parties to resume talks to seek a peaceful solution,” the AU said in a statement issued Wednesday.
The AU Commission chairperson is following with deep concern the reports of renewed military confrontation in Ethiopia, an AU statement issued Wednesday evening read.
Mahamat called on the parties to engage with the AU High Representative for the Horn of Africa, former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo.
He reiterated the continental bloc’s continued commitment to work with the parties in support of a consensual political process in the interest of the country.
According to the Ethiopian government, the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) resumed fighting early Wednesday starting at 5:00a.m. local time around Biso Ber, Zobil and Tekulesh.
The Ethiopian Government Communications Service said in a statement that Ethiopian forces are successfully repulsing the attack.
