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What is now called Eritrea was a district of Tigray before 1890. Menelik gave away these districts to Italy to weaken Tigray nobility.
It is logical to get these districs called now Eritrea returned to Tigray, North Ethiopia

Seraye, akule Guzai and Hammssen were ruled by Tigrayans or Amhara. We do not know in history any one from Akule Guzay or Seraye or Hamassen being appointed as a governor of any the districts. Keren or Bogos land was part of Tigray too.

Menelik betrayed Ethiopia by giving away districts of Tigray to Eritrea by signing
Wuchale Treaty in May 1889. While Yohannes was ruling Ethiopia Menelik was negotiating with Italy. Yohannes IV died in March 1889 while fighting the invading Sudanese Mahdists, a nationalist and patriotic group of muslims who were fighting the British in Sudan.

Treaty of Wuchale (also spelled Treaty of Ucciale; Italian: Trattato di Uccialli) was a treaty signed between the empire of Ethiopia and the kingdom of Italy. King Menelik II of Shewa, later the Emperor of Ethiopia, and Count Pietro Antonelli of Italy, on 2 May 1889, established the treaty after the Italian occupation of Eritrea. It was signed in the small Ethiopian town of Wuchale, from which the treaty got its name. The purpose of the treaty was to promote friendship and trade among the two countries.[1] It was a treaty to maintain a positive long lasting relationship between the two empires.[2] The treaty has twenty articles written in two languages, Amharic and Italian. There were slight differences between the Italian and the Amharic version of the treaty which created miscommunications between the two countries. Specifically, Article 17 of the treaty was translated differently between the two versions. This difference in translation created disagreement and resulted in the treaty being denounced by Menelik II in 1893.[3] When Menelik II denounced the treaty, Italy attempted to forcefully impose protectorate status over Ethiopia in the First Italo-Ethiopian War, which ended with Italy's defeat at the Battle of Adwa and the Treaty of Addis Ababa.