Under international pressure, the federal government promised a truce in Tigray but is now losing ground to the Oromo insurgency, Just weeks after its 24 March announcement of an indefinite humanitarian truce in the civil war in northern Ethiopia centred around the defiant Tigray region, the federal government declared another offensive against the Oromo Liberation Army (OLA) in Oromia, the largest of Ethiopia s 11 semi-autonomous regional states.