Ethiopia civil war: How we brokered peace – Obasanjo
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has finally opened up on how he led the African Union’s Horn of Africa to broker a peaceful resolution in the two-year civil war in Ethiopia. Obasanjo who is the High Representative of the AU’s Horn of Africa led the peace talk between the Ethiopian Army and the Tigray People’s Liberation […]
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Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has finally opened up on how he led the African Union’s Horn of Africa to broker a peaceful resolution in the two-year civil war in Ethiopia.
Obasanjo who is the High Representative of the AU’s Horn of Africa led the peace talk between the Ethiopian Army and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF).
He said it took him and other African leaders, including former President Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya and former Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka of South Africa who were part of the panel eight months “intense shuttle diplomacy, including eight visits to Mekelle, the Capital of Tigray” to broker peace between the two parties.
He gave details of the peace pact in an article he personally wrote and titled, “My Ethiopia-Tigray experience and the road to peace.”
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The article was made available to newsmen in Abeokuta, Ogun State capital, by Obasanjo’s special assistant on media, Kehinde Akinyemi.
The former president said despite the challenges he encountered while trying to broker peace between the parties he refused to be discouraged.
He warned that the peace pact must be implemented in good faith to avoid the reoccurrence of the crisis.
“All leaders of Ethiopia and all Ethiopians with their neighbours, partners and friends must join hands and accept the truth that there is ‘no victor, no vanquished’ if the possibility of peace, common security and shared prosperity, development and progress for all concerned is to be realized.
“The peace agreement and its implementation must be owned by the leaders and people of Ethiopia. The panel and the observers are mere facilitators, there to provide a guiding hand if needed,” he said.
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