Human Rights Watch has warned that the November 2022 ceasefire agreement in northern Ethiopia is at risk of collapsing, calling for urgent regional and international intervention to prevent renewed atrocities.
The report states that the monitoring mechanism has failed to address human rights violations, allowing parties to continue targeting civilians in the Tigray region.
The organisation also criticized Ethiopian and Eritrean authorities for failing to hold perpetrators of serious abuses committed during the 2020–2022 conflict accountable.
HRW urged the African Union, along with Kenya, South Africa, and the United States, to mobilize immediately to prevent further violations, stressing that the danger of a renewed cycle of atrocities is “very real.”
