The Ethiopian government announced on Wednesday that it had accepted an invitation from the African Union to participate in peace talks with the rebels in the Tigray region, without specifying a date or place for the meeting.
Radwan Hussein, National Security Adviser to Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, tweeted that “The African Union has extended an invitation to peace talks and the Government of Ethiopia has accepted this invitation in line with our principled stance towards a peaceful resolution to the conflict and the need for negotiations without preconditions “.