Editing Tigray Region (section)

==== Postwar ====
John Young, who visited the area several times in the early 1990s, attributes this delay in part to "central budget restraint, structural readjustment, and lack of awareness by government bureaucrats in [[Addis Ababa]] of conditions in the province", but notes "an equally significant obstacle was posed by an entrenched, and largely Oromo and Southern-dominated, central bureaucracy which used its power to block government-authorized funds from reaching Tigray".<ref>{{cite book|last1=Young|first1=John|title=Peasant Revolution in Ethiopia: The Tigray People's Liberation Front, 1975–1991|date=2006|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-02606-2|page=197|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=S9LX8UpI97MC&pg=PA197|access-date=13 November 2020|archive-date=27 March 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230327025546/https://books.google.com/books?id=S9LX8UpI97MC&pg=PA197|url-status=live}}</ref> At the same time, a growing urban middle class of traders, businessmen and government officials emerged that was suspicious of and distant from the victorious EPRDF.{{citation needed|date=July 2021}}
From 1991 to 2001, the president of Tigray was [[Gebru Asrat]].
In 1998, [[Eritrean-Ethiopian War|war erupted between Eritrea and Ethiopia]] over a portion of territory that had been administered as part of Tigray, which included the town of [[Badme]]. A 2002 [[United Nations]] decision awarded much of this land to Eritrea, but Ethiopia did not accept the ruling until 2018, when a [[2018 Eritrea–Ethiopia summit|bilateral agreement]] ended the [[Eritrean–Ethiopian border conflict|border conflict]]. The text of this agreement has not been publicly availed.