The Government of Ethiopia has declared a unilateral humanitarian truce aimed at "providing unhindered humanitarian support" to citizens in the Tigray region.
The Statement issued by the Government Communication Service stated "the government is committed to exert maximum effort to facilitate the free flow of emergency humanitarian aid into the Tigray region.”
The government also called up on rebells in Tigray to do the same for successful aid flow to citizens affected by the war.
“To optimise 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 neighbouring regions of Afar and Amhara,” it said in the statement.
“The government of Ethiopia hopes that this truce will substantially improve the humanitarian situation on the ground and pave the way for the resolution of the conflict in northern Ethiopia without further bloodshed," it adds.
A spokesman for the Tigrayan forces did not respond to a request for comment on the announcement, which followed a visit by the US special envoy for the Horn of Africa, David Satterfield, to the capital Addis Ababa this week.
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