The highest-level negotiations between the two sides in Ethiopia’s civil war began last week in South Africa, amid low expectations they will end the two-year war, which has claimed more than 600,000 lives, or open a pathway to lasting peace. Nevertheless, the African Union-led talks between Ethiopia’s federal government and representatives of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front, or TPLF, which began Oct. 24 and were scheduled to end on Oct. 30, have been extended, suggesting that, if both sides are not ready to stop fighting, neither are they ready to stop talking.
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