Oct. 26 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The president of the African Union Commission, Musa Faki Mahamat, praised this Wednesday the role played by the South African authorities in promoting the peace process that puts a solution to the war in the Tigray region, in the north from Ethiopia.
South Africa is currently hosting talks between the Ethiopian government and the Tigray Popular Front for the Liberation (TPLF) rebels, which began on Tuesday and are aimed at achieving peace after two years of armed conflict.
In a statement, Mahamat expressed his appreciation for the attitude of the South African president, Cyril Ramaphosa, and the government itself, which “has agreed to host these negotiations in the framework of the pan-African spirit of solidarity to find African solutions to African problems,” according to has picked up the chain News24.
Although these talks are mediated by the African Union, the United States, the United Nations and the Intergovernmental Authority on Development, they have each sent representatives as observers.
In this sense, Mahamat stressed that the parties seek “an Ethiopian process led by the African Union to silence the weapons and achieve a stable, united, peaceful and resilient country”.
Vincent Magwenya, spokesman for the South African president, has confirmed for his part that the talks will last until October 30 and has indicated that the country’s authorities have agreed to host the talks because “they fit in with the country’s foreign policy objectives”. to “ensure a conflict-free continent”.
