Getachew Reda Takes the Horn's Security File to the UN's Peace Operations Chief

Getachew Reda, minister-adviser to the prime minister on East African affairs, has met Jean-Pierre Lacroix of the United Nations' peace operations, Fana Television reported, citing information from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Both sides stressed the necessity of working in cooperation to bring peace and stability to the Horn of Africa. The meeting was reported on 25 September.

The timing is the story

A routine-sounding diplomatic readout is worth reading twice when you look at the week it lands in.

The TPLF offensive against federal forces has drawn condemnation from Washington, Brussels and, this week, Abu Dhabi. Fighting has spread into Afar and Amhara. Telephone and internet service in Tigray has been cut. Ethiopian Airlines has stopped flying to the region.

Taking that file to the United Nations' peacekeeping apparatus, rather than to a mediator or a neighbouring capital, is a particular choice about where Addis Abeba wants the conversation held. Peace operations is the part of the UN that deploys people, not the part that issues statements.

For business, the readout is thin but the direction matters. Companies with exposure in the north are pricing a conflict whose ceiling is unknown. Any sign that the federal government is looking for an internationally supervised floor under it is information.

Open

Neither the ministry nor the UN has said whether any deployment, monitoring arrangement or humanitarian access was discussed, or whether either side proposed anything concrete. The readout records agreement on a principle and nothing else.

Sources: Fana Television, 25 September 2026