The African Union-led negotiations have been flagged to start Monday, after a surge in fighting that has triggered alarm in the international community.
NAIROBI - Negotiators from the Ethiopian government and Tigrayan rebel authorities were readying Monday for peace talks in South Africa aimed at finding a peaceful solution to the brutal two-year war.
But it also said its forces "have continued taking control of major urban centres in the past few days", without identifying them. Abiy, who sent troops into Tigray in November 2020 promising a quick victory over the northern region's dissident leaders in the Tigray People's Liberation Front , had said Thursday the war "would end and peace will prevail".
Tigray has been under a communications blackout for over a year, and independent reporting from the region has been heavily curtailed.The UN Security Council held a closed-door meeting Friday to discuss the spiralling conflict and fears for civilians caught in the crossfire. The International Crisis Group think tank said while reliable data was scarce, it believed the fighting since August alone may have involved more than half a million combatants and killed tens of thousands of people.
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