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After Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed came to power in 2018, OLF has ratified as a recognized political party in Ethiopia in 2019, but its wing, OLA, rejected government's summon to deal in a peace talk in August 2018, leading to OLA insurgency. The first peace talk was held in April 2023 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania with a failed outcome. [1] In ...
The Oromo Liberation Army (OLA; Oromo: Waraana Bilisummaa Oromoo, WBO) is an armed opposition group active in the Oromia Region of Ethiopia.The OLA consist primarily of former armed members of the pre-peace deal Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) who refused to disarm out of skepticism of the peace deal, and former youth protestors who grew disillusioned with nonviolent resistance.
Status: Ongoing. Start of peace talks between government of Ethiopia and the OLA on 25 April 2023. [1] [2]Conflict resumes after peace talks failed in May 2023. Peace agreement signed between OLA leaders and the Ethiopian government on 1 December 2024 and its members started moving into designated camps [3] [4] [5] [6]
Status: Ongoing. Start of peace talks between government of Ethiopia and the OLA on 25 April 2023 [4] [5]; Conflict resumes after peace talks failed in May 2023. The OLA and the government signed a peace deal on 1 December 2024 and its members started moving into designated camps [6] [7] [8] [9]
Some sources predicted that the war could lead into a civil war. After the bloody Tigray War, both TPLF and the Ethiopian government signed peace agreement in Pretoria on 2 November 2022. After the Nairobi agreement, Tigrayan forces ordered to disarm, and the full sovereignty of the region restored which allowed humanitarian access. In January ...
Start of peace talks between government of Ethiopia and the OLA on 25 April 2023 [20] [21] Conflict with the OLA resumes after peace talks failed in May 2023; The OLA and the government signed a peace deal on 1 December 2024 and its members started moving into designated camps [22] [23] [24] [25]
The OLA was not satisfied with the peace negotiations, and split from the OLF. The OLA continued carrying out armed attacks. [ 33 ] Nagessa Dube, writing in Ethiopia Insight , described the split as "tactical", and stated that, as of August 2020, the OLA appeared to consist of two administratively separate groups in the south and west.
On 19 October 2022, the BPLM signed a peace agreement with the regional government and left the coalition. [ 5 ] During the Ethiopia–Tigray peace agreement , the TPLF agreed to "Refrain from aiding and abetting, supporting, or collaborating with any armed or subversive group in any part of the country."