Peace talks begin in South Africa to end Ethiopia's Tigray conflict
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Peace talks have began in South Africa to end the Tigray conflict in Ethiopia. The fighting has possibly killed hundreds of thousands of people over the years.
"Such talks are in line with South Africa’s foreign policy objectives of a secure and conflict-free continent," Magwenya said.
Former Nigerian president and AU envoy Olesegun Obasanjo, former South African deputy president Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka and former Kenyan president Uhuru Kenyatta are facilitating the talks with the encouragement of the United States, whose special envoy Mike Hammer picked up the Tigray delegation in a U.S. military aircraft on Sunday.
The conflict has sharply changed the fortunes of Ethiopia's Nobel Peace Prize-winning Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, who went to war with his country's northern Tigray region less than a year after receiving the award for making peace with neighboring Eritrea. Eritrea's government has long seen the Tigray leaders, who led Ethiopia for nearly three decades before Abiy came to power, as enemies.
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