ETHIOPIA has established an interim administration for the country's war-ravaged northern Tigray region, the prime minister's office said, a key step in the implementation of a peace agreement. As had been expected, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed appointed Getachew Reda, the spokesman of the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), which led the northern region into war with the federal government in late 2020, as the head of the interim administration. Tens of thousands of people were killed and millions forced from their homes in the two-year Tigray conflict, which ended with a truce signed in Pretoria last November. The lack of…