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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Jason Burke

Postponement of Tigray peace talks latest blow in Ethiopia’s hidden war

Group of six women, one holding a child by the arm and another sitting at a classroom desk
Tigrayan women at a camp for the internally displaced, housed in an elementary school in Mekele, the capital of the Tigray region. Photograph: Ben Curtis/AP

Hopes for quick relief for millions of civilians threatened by malnutrition, disease and direct attacks in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region were dashed this weekend as long-awaited peace talks were postponed without any new date set.

The meeting between the warring sides in the two-year-old conflict in Tigray would have been the first since a ceasefire broke down in late August.

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