Is war between Ethiopia & Eritrea inevitable?: Mehdi Hasan & Getachew Reda | Abiy Ahmed

In 2022, the Pretoria Agreement ended the brutal civil war between the Federal Government of Ethiopia and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front.

Today, hopes for lasting peace and justice are gone. Relations between Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s government and the TPLF have once again soured, with many fearing renewed hostilities.

And relations with neighboring Eritrea, which fought against the TPLF alongside Ethiopia, have deteriorated, bringing the country to the brink of war.

Getachew Reda was a prominent political figure in Tigray as TPLF spokesman and interim president of Tigray during the civil war.

After publicly falling out, he claimed there was deep corruption among the TPLF leadership and he joined his one-time arch enemy Abiy.

Mehdi goes head-to-head with Getachew Reda, an adviser to the Ethiopian Prime Minister, on his new alliance with Hassan Abiy, and asks if Ethiopia and Eritrea are heading towards war.

Joining the discussion:
Tsedel Lemma – Editor, The Addis Standard newspaper
Kjetil Tronvoll – Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at Oslo New University College
Bisrat Lemesa – Founder, Nexus Forum for Research and Dialogue