African Union Hails Landmark Peace Agreement in Ethiopia, Welcomes Signing Between Amhara Region and FANO-AFPO.
The African Union (AU) today witnessed and welcomed a significant step towards lasting peace in Ethiopia with the signing of a sustainable peace agreement between the Amhara National Regional State and the Amhara FANO Popular Organization (FANO-AFPO).
The signing ceremony, held in Addis Ababa, was attended by H.E. Selma Malika Haddadi, Deputy Chairperson of the African Union Commission, who represented the continental body, and Mr. Mohamed Abdi Ware, Deputy Executive Secretary of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD).
In her statement at the event, the Deputy Chairperson
@DCP_Haddadi commended the parties for their commitment to dialogue and peaceful resolution. She emphasized that this agreement represents a crucial milestone not only for Ethiopia but for the entire African continent.
stated H.E. Selma Malika Haddadi.Each peace agreement inches us closer to achieving our goal of Silencing the Guns in Africa,
The African Union reaffirms its unwavering commitment to supporting the implementation of this agreement and the broader peace in Ethiopia.On behalf of the African Union, I congratulate the parties for reaching this important milestone. This achievement demonstrates the power of African-led solutions to African challenges.
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That letter was not worse than AU sponsoring a fraudulent "peace agreement" between Abiy Ahmed's fascist regime and an individual who was officially dismissed by AFPO. The AU chose to become a party in Abiy Ahmed's war of genocide & sexual violence against the Amhara people.
Shame!
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STATEMENT: AAA Denounces IGAD and AUC for Legitimizing the Abiy Regime’s Fabricated “Peace Deal” Amid the Regime’s Ongoing Genocidal War
December 4, 2025 (Hedar 25, 2018 EC)
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Is Abiy Ahmed once again misusing the @_AfricanUnion for his political theatrics—this time to promote a fabricated “peace agreement” between a renegade individual falsely presented as represenative of Amhara Fano Forces and Arega Kebede and his other puppets in the Amhara Region?
Several glaring issues demand clarification:
1st . Basic professionalism is missing — How does an official AU document misspell the word “Regional”?
2nd. Where is the proper authorization? — There is no signature from the head of the relevant African Union department, which raises serious questions about the document’s legitimacy.
3. No such model exists — There is no evidence anywhere in the world of an
This appears to be an invention to give political cover to a regime desperate for legitimacy.Individual-Centered Peace Signing Model.
The Chairperson of AU Commission, Mahmoud Ali Youssouf and the Director of the Department, Ms. Patience Zanelie Chiradza, owe the public a clear explanation.
Without transparency, the Abiy Ahmed regime and the ruling PP will continue using the AU as a stage for manufactured “peace deals” that misrepresent facts on the ground and undermine genuine efforts toward peace and stability in Ethiopia. This is a shameful spectacle at the expense of the African Union’s credibility and that of IGAD secretariat.
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Ethiopia
The AU’s Ethiopia Problem: How a Continental Body Became a Stage for Manufactured Peace
By Ternafi
https://mesobjournal.com/post/au-fake-e ... peace-deal
Dec 6, 2025
AU officials witness a “peace deal” later exposed as a staged signing.
For anyone who has followed the AU’s behavior over the last two decades, the events of December 4 in Ethiopia were not shocking. They were simply the latest chapter in a long, predictable pattern: the African Union being instrumentalized by whichever Ethiopian government happens to sit in Addis Ababa that year.
This time, the AU announced a
between the Amhara Regional State and thehistoric peace agreement
The optics were grand — a hall set up for a continental peace ceremony, IGAD dignitaries in attendance, and the Deputy Chairperson of the AU Commission declaring that Ethiopia had takenAmhara FANO Popular Organization (AFPO).
But the core claim collapsed immediately.a significant step toward peace.
And not softly — it collapsed in public, with documents, with official statements, and with embarrassing speed.
The Individual Who “Signed for Fano” Was Nobody’s Representative — Not Even Fano’s
AFPO, the very organization the AU claimed to have negotiated with, released a statement in Amharic making their position unambiguously clear. The individual who signed the “peace agreement”:
• was expelled long ago,
• holds no role,
• has no mandate,
• and has zero authority to represent FANO.
AFPO even warned that this individual was previously suspected of working with the government — a fact the AU could have discovered with a single phone call.
Instead, a continental institution declared a bilateral peace agreement between the Ethiopian government and… an unaffiliated walk-in.
This was far from mediation. This was propaganda for Ethiopian regime — and badly produced propaganda at that.
IGAD Repeated the Same Failure — And the AAA Called It Out
The Amhara Association of America issued its own statement condemning IGAD and the AU for legitimizing a fabricated “peace deal” in the middle of an ongoing war. Their assessment was blunt, but accurate:
• The AU and IGAD presented the surrender of a handful of fighters as a political settlement.
• Both institutions displayed a shocking disregard for the scale of the war in Amhara.
• Both showed a pattern of subservience to the Prosperity Party regime.
It is difficult to find fault in their conclusion. Ethiopia is not at peace. Fano has not negotiated. Millions remain displaced. Yet the AU and IGAD were willing to act as if a symbolic ceremony could overwrite the reality on the ground.
The AU’s Response to Ethiopian Researcher Sisay (Amoraw) Only Deepened the Confusion
When researcher Sisay (Amoraw) asked the AU for clarification, the institution responded with an extremely revealing letter.
The AU admitted:
• They recognized the signing as an “advancement” toward stability.
• They reaffirmed the “legitimacy” of the agreement…
• While simultaneously acknowledging AFPO’s public rejection of the signer.
To reconcile this contradiction, the AU invented a new phrase:
In plain language, this means:Individual-centered Peace Signing Model.
If the actual armed groups refuse to negotiate, the AU will simply find individuals willing to sign a paper so it can claim progress.
A peace model not based on real stakeholders, but on whoever shows up. Nothing about this is legitimate, it’s institutional decay dressed up as innovation.
Why Does the AU Keep Falling Into Ethiopia’s Trap?
Because the AU is not an impartial actor on Ethiopia. It never has been.
• In 2007, during Ethiopia’s invasion of Somalia, the AU and IGAD served as institutional shields for Addis Ababa, legitimizing a foreign invasion.
• Throughout Ethiopia’s civil wars, the AU has remained largely silent or neutralized - never once confronting the governments whose actions drove the crises.
• Even as guarantor of the final and binding Algiers Agreement between Eritrea and Ethiopia, the AU never enforced Ethiopia’s legal obligation to comply with the ruling — not once in 20 years.
• Ethiopia’s threats and military adventurism against its neighbors — Eritrea, Somalia, Sudan — consistently receive a diplomatic blind eye.
This is structural. The AU sits in Addis Ababa, financially dependent on external donors and politically dependent on host-government goodwill. Successive Ethiopian governments have understood this leverage and used it effectively.
Abiy Ahmed is simply continuing a tradition, albeit with more theatrics.
December 4 Was Not a Peace Process — It Was a Propaganda Exercise
The AU’s messaging sounded inspiring on the surface:
• “African solutions for African challenges.”
• “Silencing the Guns.”
• “A milestone for the African continent.”
But none of these words change the facts:
1. No legitimate Fano structure participated.
2. The signer represented no one.
3. AFPO publicly rejected the show within hours.
4. The AU doubled down instead of correcting itself.
5. IGAD played along, reinforcing the same false narrative.
What happened on December 4 was not peacebuilding.
It was the Prosperity Party using regional and continental institutions to create a performance of stability — a performance intended for donors, diplomats, and external observers.
The real situation — continued conflict, mass displacement, and fragmentation — remains untouched.
The AU’s Credibility Crisis Is Now Impossible to Ignore
If the AU wants to mediate Ethiopia’s conflicts, it must first regain credibility. But credibility is impossible when:
• Disinformation from the host government is treated as fact.
• Individuals with no mandate are registered as political actors.
• Conflicts are reframed as resolved based on staged ceremonies.
• The suffering of millions is reduced to a press release.
A peace process built on appeasing the host regime and echoing its propaganda guarantees only one thing:
more war, more instability, and more institutional embarrassment.
Ethiopia’s Conflicts Will Not End Through Staged Diplomacy
Abiy Ahmed’s Prosperity Party is desperate to project control and momentum. For a regime fighting multiple fronts — Amhara, Oromia, internal fractures, economic collapse — a fabricated peace agreement provides useful optics.
But when the AU and IGAD endorse such fabrications, they cease to be mediators.
They become amplifiers of the very instability they claim to resolve.
The continent deserves better.
The people suffering on the ground deserve honesty, not staged harmony.
And African institutions must stop letting themselves be staged as props in the political theatre of Ethiopia’s rulers.
