Agreement

OLF-Ethiopian government peace agreement, 2018

The OLF agreed to disarm and pursue its goals peacefully, though a faction later rejected this and split off.

What happened

In August 2018, the OLF and the Ethiopian government signed a peace agreement providing for disarmament and peaceful political activity.[1]

Fighters rejecting this deal formed the OLA, formalising their split from the OLF in April 2020, and continued an insurgency intensifying from 2019.[2]

Sources for this page

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  1. 1.

    Claim: In August 2018, the OLF and the Ethiopian government signed a peace agreement declaring a ceasefire, providing for the disarmament of OLF fighters, the continuation of OLF political activity by peaceful means, and the establishment of a joint committee to implement the agreement.

    • Oromo Liberation Army (Wikipedia) link, 2018 peace agreement section. Source record
  2. 2.

    Claim: The Oromo Liberation Army (OLA) split from the OLF, consisting primarily of former OLF armed members who rejected the 2018 disarmament terms out of scepticism toward the peace deal; the split was formalised in April 2020, after which the OLA continued an armed insurgency against the Ethiopian government that intensified from 2019 onward. This bundle does not narrate the insurgency's specific incidents, including named massacres, in detail.

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