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Ethiopia truce implementation to start "immediately", mediator says

Getachew Reda, spokesman for the Tigray authorities talks to other officials at the meeting on the implementation of the cessation of hostilities agreement between the government of Ethiopia and the forces from Tigray, in Nairobi, Kenya November 12, 2022. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya

The Ethiopian government and Tigrayan forces on Saturday signed an agreement laying out the roadmap for implementation of a peace deal that both sides reached in South Africa this month.

The implementation would start immediately and would be "in terms of unhindered humanitarian access in terms of protection of civilians in terms of disarmament," mediator Olusegun Obasanjo told a news conference in the Kenyan capital.

Both parties signed the agreement after week long talks.

Tsadkan Gebretensae, a top general in the Tigray delegation talks to Getachew Reda, spokesman for the Tigray authorities and Redwan Hussein, National Security Adviser to Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed at the meeting on the implementation of the cessation of hostilities agreement between the government of Ethiopia and the forces from Tigray, in Nairobi, Kenya November 12, 2022. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya

(Reporting by Ayenat Mersie, Writing by Duncan Miriri and Elias Biryabarema; Editing by Frank Jack Daniel)

Former Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta arrives at the meeting on the implementation of the cessation of hostilities agreement between the government of Ethiopia and the forces from Tigray, in Nairobi, Kenya November 12, 2022. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya
Former Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta arrives for the meeting on the implementation of the cessation of hostilities agreement between the government of Ethiopia and the forces from Tigray, in Nairobi, Kenya November 12, 2022. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya
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