Ethiopia Insight published on 9 July 2025 a commentary titled "Daring the Untried: Struggling for a New Path in Ethiopia's Tigray Region" by Getachew Gebrekiros Temare, lawyer and peace activist.
Tigray is adrift and no longer a unified region following a war with the central government that ended with the Pretoria Agreement in 2022. The crisis is political, moral, generational, and spiritual. There is an absence of transformative political vision and external players have become indifferent.
The author argues for development of a nonviolent civic movement grounded in grassroots legitimacy and detached from party control. It must promote truth-telling, communal healing, and justice that goes beyond rhetoric. Tigray's future will not be salvaged by secret deals or new wars.
