A peace deal to end the fighting in Tigray was brokered in South Africa by the African Union on 2 November last year.
The war, which also drew in Eritrean forces, inflicted terrible damage on the region. Ethiopian Finance Minister Ahmed Shide recently estimated the cost of reconstruction at $20 billion.
But though access to key services including banking, electricity, and internet has resumed in some parts of Tigray over the past year, one million people remain displaced across the region, according to the International Organization for Migration.
Serious human rights abuses have gone unpunished, and clashes have since erupted in other parts of the country, notably in the Amhara region south of Tigray.
The two-year conflict between forces loyal to Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's government and the Tigray People's Liberation Front killed half a million people, according to the United States, with all parties accused of grave rights abuses. Fighting and abuses persist in northern Ethiopia despite the ceasefire, according to Human Rights Watch (HRW).
The rights group said Eritrean forces, which backed Abiy during the conflict and remain in border areas of Tigray, had "carried out killings, sexual violence, abductions, and pillage, and obstructed humanitarian assistance, and impeded the work of AU monitors" following the signing of the peace deal.
HRW called on the UN and other countries to maintain pressure on Ethiopia to protect civilians and punish those responsible.
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