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“Painful concessions.”

Nov 26 , 2022.

Getachew Reda, a political bureau member of the TPLF and chief negotiator, conceded in an interview with Stephen Sackur on HardTalk, the compromise made leading to the Pretoria Accord that ended hostilities between the adversarial forces in the two-year civil war broke out in November 2020.


PUBLISHED ON Nov 26,2022 [ VOL 23 , NO 1178]

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