{"id":1403038,"date":"2022-03-27T13:00:12","date_gmt":"2022-03-27T17:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1403038"},"modified":"2022-03-27T13:00:23","modified_gmt":"2022-03-27T17:00:23","slug":"ethiopian-civil-war-pauses-for-humanitarian-truce-to-allow-aid-delivery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ethiopian-civil-war-pauses-for-humanitarian-truce-to-allow-aid-delivery\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopian Civil War Pauses for &#039;Humanitarian Truce&#039; to Allow Aid Delivery"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fethiopian-civil-war-pauses-for-humanitarian-truce-to-allow-aid-delivery%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1403038&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p class=\"subheading\">Ethiopia\u2019s 16-month-long civil war <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/live-news\/20220325-tigray-rebels-agree-to-cessation-of-hostilities\">observed<\/a> a ceasefire on Friday after separatist militants from Ethiopia\u2019s northern Tigray region agreed to a \u201ccessation of hostilities\u201d proposed by Addis Ababa 24 hours earlier to allow humanitarian aid delivery to Ethiopia, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported.<\/p>\n<p>The Tigray People\u2019s Liberation Front (TPLF) said it was \u201ccommitted to implementing a cessation of hostilities effective immediately\u201d in a statement issued to AFP on March 25.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The TPLF\u2019s confirmation of a ceasefire came in response to the Ethiopian federal government\u2019s request for a \u201ctruce\u201d in fighting between the two sides on March 24. Addis Ababa described the proposed truce as \u201cindefinite\u201d and said it would aim to allow international organizations the ability to deliver much-needed humanitarian aid to areas of Ethiopia affected by the nation\u2019s internal conflict.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cTo optimize 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 neighboring regions,\u201d Ethiopia\u2019s Government Communication Service <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dw.com\/en\/ethiopia-tigray-forces-accept-humanitarian-cease-fire\/a-61248941\">said<\/a> in a press release.<\/p>\n<p>Ethiopia\u2019s ongoing civil war began in November 2020 after militants loyal to the TPLF <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-ethiopia-conflict-attack\/inside-a-military-base-in-ethiopias-tigray-soldiers-decry-betrayal-by-former-comrades-idUSKBN28R1IE\">attacked<\/a> a federal Ethiopian military base in Tigray. Addis Ababa responded to the aggression by launching an air and ground offensive against the TPLF and its allied forces. The conflict has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/africa\/2022\/03\/18\/ethiopia-purges-thousands-of-officials-as-civil-war-drags-on\/\">continued<\/a> for nearly 17 months since then, with fighting reportedly spreading to two regions neighboring Tigray (Afar and Amhara). In addition to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unhcr.org\/refugeebrief\/the-refugee-brief-5-november-2021\/\">causing<\/a> massive internal displacement within Ethiopia, the war has compelled thousands of people in the country to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/live-news\/20210821-caught-in-the-crossfire-ethiopian-minority-flees-to-sudan\">flee<\/a> to nearby nations such as Sudan.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19647762\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/media.breitbart.com\/media\/2022\/01\/wi\/ap\/27\/ethiopia-tigray-crisis-an-ethiopian-woman-scoops-up-portions-of-yellow-split-peas-be-allocated-waiting.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>An Ethiopian woman scoops up portions of yellow split peas to be allocated to waiting families after it was distributed by the Relief Society of Tigray in the town of Agula, in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia, on May 8, 2021. (Ben Curtis, File\/AP)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>International aid organizations have alleged for several months that they are unable to deliver humanitarian aid to war-ravaged regions of Ethiopia due to incessant fighting between the TPLF and Addis Ababa. The World Food Program (WFP), which is the food assistance arm of the United Nations (UN), <a href=\"https:\/\/news.un.org\/en\/story\/2022\/01\/1110802\">estimated<\/a> in January that 40 percent of people in Ethiopia\u2019s Tigray region were \u201csuffering an extreme lack of food.\u201d The WFP said the widespread hunger in Tigray (population 5.5 million) was due, in part, to its failure to distribute aid shipments, which it blamed on a lack of coordination by the Ethiopian federal government. Addis Ababa, for its part, claimed in the same month that attacks against its forces by the TPLF had prevented the Ethiopian federal government from facilitating aid deliveries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Ethiopian government said last week that 43 trucks would deliver food and other aid to Tigray, but no trucks have arrived as fighting rages along the border between the Afar and Tigray regions,\u201d Reuters <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/africa\/nearly-40-people-ethiopias-tigray-lack-adequate-food-wfp-2022-01-28\/\">reported<\/a> on January 28.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn Friday, the government said a convoy carrying food and medicine was forced to turn back due to fighting it blamed on the TPLF,\u201d the news agency relayed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia\u2019s 16-month-long civil war observed a ceasefire on Friday after separatist militants from Ethiopia\u2019s northern Tigray region agreed to a \u201ccessation of hostilities\u201d proposed by Addis Ababa 24 hours earlier<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1403038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1403038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1403038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1403038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1403038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}