Ethiopia’s Pretend Peace: How the Non-Implementation of the Pretoria Truce Has Entrenched Insecurity and Gendered Suffering in Tigray
The world speaks of Tigray’s war as though it ended with the Pretoria Agreement. But for the people of Tigray — especially women — the violence never truly stopped. Foreign forces remain on our land. Displacement continues. Sexual violence survivors still wait for justice that never comes. Mothers struggle to feed families under a humanitarian system that remains obstructed. The peace celebrated abroad has not been felt on the ground, except the silencing of guns. From Irob to Western Tigray, women face the same dangers that Pretoria promised to end. Eritrean soldiers still occupy parts of our region. Amhara forces still control Tigrayan territories. The institutions responsible for accountability remain politically compromised. And the voices of survivors — the voices that should define any peace process — remain sidelined. A peace that ignores women’s safety, dignity, and justice is not peace at all. Pretoria may have silenced the international headlines, but it has not silenced the ...