 To other parts of Africa, the African Union has called for a political dialogue between the Ethiopian government and Tigrayan officials more than three months after a peace agreement that ended a bloody conflict in the north of the country. The statement issued on Saturday in Addis Ababa was the outcome from a meeting of the monitoring committee for the peace agreement that included representatives of the Ethiopian government and Tigrayan leaders and the Intergovernmental Authority on Development, IGAD. The peace agreement was signed in November 2022 in Pretoria between the Ethiopian government and the rebels of the northern region of Ethiopia after two years of conflict.