Getahun Tsegaye
Staff Reporter
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia- Debretsion Gebremichael (PhD) announced that the TPLF’s central committee held a regular meeting. The committee discussed various domestic, regional, and international issues and set new directions for the future.
According to Debretsion, the role of the TPLF has undergone an alteration within the framework of the interim administration, the change being oriented toward serving the community rather than replacing staff.
Apart from this, he declared that the interim administration and the institution have evolved to work very closely with one another. Debretsion explains that the primary objective of the TPLF is to ensure the implementation of the Pretoria Agreement.
He further said that the TPLF, with the federal government, will try to repatriate displaced citizens. Debretsion asserted that the number of invaders and settlers in Tigray territory has rather been on the rise than on the downturn.
Citing the federal government as a hurdle to addressing these concerns, he said: “We were instructed to prepare a list of returnees, but they have not returned yet” due to the federal government not being prepared. He further added that the federal government would give the same position that Wolkait should be administered by the federal government.
The National Election Board of Ethiopia (NEBE) had, on May 5, 2025, cancelled the legal status of Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF). This decision was made after the TPLF failed to meet the NEBE requirements, including convening a general assembly, within the given time frame of three months.
In the month of August 2024, the TPLF was temporarily registered under the special proclamation for parties of armed conflict history. It is not known what legal basis the Dr. Debretsion-led TPLF has to operate as a political organization, especially given its suspension.
The organizational relationship between the TPLF and the Tigray Interim Administration, under Lieutenant General Tadesse Worede, remains unclear.
The Raya Alamata areas, which lie under the jurisdiction of the Amhara regional state, had been forcibly incorporated by the southern movements of TPLF forces very recently. Days after this incorporation, locals protested, asserting they wanted to remain with the Amhara Region and refused to be incorporated by the Tigray forces.
The Amhara regional state has not yet commented on the matter. The Raya Alamata Identity Committee submitted a request for recognition of their identity to the House of Federation years ago and is still awaiting a response.
Debretsion’s statement today regarding Wolkait is likely to further fuel tensions in the area. Wolkait was reincorporated into the Amhara region after the two-year war between the federal government and Tigray forces, a conflict in which Amhara forces, known as Fano, participated following an invitation from the federal government.
For years, Wolkait, under Colonel Demeke Zewdu, has also been requesting a response from the House of Federation, similar to Raya Alamata.
Recently, officials including Zone Chief Administrator Ashete Demlew and Colonel Demeke Zewdu, graduated armed personnel, allegedly to enhance leadership and peace enforcement capacities in the region following consistent threats from the TPLF to retake the area.
Following this, the Tigray Communication Bureau accused Amhara officials and the Amhara Media Corporation of presenting Humera as part of Amhara, calling it an “unconstitutional act” and “a direct breach of the Pretoria Agreement.”
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