France, Germany to send top diplomats to Ethiopia to consolidate peace agreement with Tigray

France and Germany are sending next week their Foreign Ministers to Ethiopia to consolidate the peace agreement signed early November between Addis Abba and Tigrayan rebels.

The announcement was made by French Foreign Minister Catherine Colonna Thursday.

“I will be going next week with my colleague and friend Annalena Baerbock to Africa, to Ethiopia,” Colonna told LCI television.

“We will travel together to consolidate the peace agreement that has finally been reached” to end the war that ravaged northern Ethiopia for two years “and to support the action of the African Union,” she added.

It is unclear when the trip will take place but according to a diplomatic source quoted by Africa News the visit of the two foreign ministers will come off on January 12 and 13.

The Ethiopian government reached a deal with Trigrayan rebels on November 2 to end a two-year war. Per the deal, the rebel will lay down guns, the federal government will turn to the region while central government will ensure the reopening of access and communications to this region, isolated since mid-2021.

Colonna and her German counterpart are also expected to discuss food security as well as relations between Ethiopia and the European Union, as well as relations between the EU and the African Union.