Tuesday June 13, 2023
The leaders said they would work towards peace
The leaders of Ethiopia's Amhara and Tigray regions have expressed a shared commitment to sort out their differences through dialogue.
Amhara regional governor Yilkal Kefale and Tigray’s interim leader, Getachew Reda, made the pledge during talks in Amhara's capital, Bahir Dar.
Mr Getachew led a Tigrayan delegation to the Amhara region for the first time since a deadly civil war erupted in northern Ethiopia in November 2020.
The war ended in a peace deal last November.
The two leaders said they would work towards re-opening road transport between Tigray and Amhara, which offers the shortest route between Tigray and Addis Ababa.
Currently, road travel between Addis Ababa and Tigray is primarily through the north-eastern Afar region, which is longer and costlier.
However, the two leaders did not address the thorny issue of land disputes between their two regions.