The Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) has announced it is reinstating the Tigray regional parliament, effectively dismantling a landmark peace agreement and raising fears of a return to conflict in northern Ethiopia. The move, announced in a Facebook post on Sunday 19 April, saw the TPLF's central committee declare it was restoring the Tigray Government Assembly, which had been suspended under the terms of the 2022 Pretoria Agreement that ended nearly two years of devastating war.

The TPLF accused Ethiopia's federal government of violating the Pretoria Agreement — brokered by the African Union — which had established an interim administration in Tigray pending new elections. The party cited the withholding of funds to pay local civil servants and alleged provocation of armed conflict within the region. The decision was also fuelled by anger over the unilateral reappointment on 8 April of Tadesse Worede as head of the interim administration, a move that deepened divisions within the TPLF itself. The reinstatement of the parliament signals fierce opposition to that interim structure, and analysts warn Tigray could soon find itself governed by two rival administrations.

The Tigray conflict, which ran from 2020 to 2022, was one of the deadliest wars of the 21st century, killing at least 600,000 people and displacing around five million. It pitted Ethiopian federal forces and the Eritrean army against TPLF rebels. The TPLF had dominated Ethiopian federal politics for nearly three decades before Abiy Ahmed became prime minister in 2018, ending the party's grip on power and triggering a breakdown in relations. Getachew Reda, the party's former spokesman, described the TPLF's announcement as