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Ethiopia Targets TPLF Leaders After Taking Region’s Capital

December 1, 2020 7:04 am

Ethiopian President Abiy Ahmed has on Monday revealed that Ethiopian federal forces are currently tracking Tigray region’s dissident leaders who had fled west of the regional capital after weeks of fighting and would ‘attack’ them soon.

This is made known in a wide-ranging four-hour address to MPs where Abiy Ahmed recounted personal tales of alleged TPLF aggression and claimed there had been no civilian casualties in the three weeks of conflict.

The international red Committee of the Red Cross has reported that hospitals in the regional capital, Mekele were flooded by trauma patients. AFP Has also shown a picture of …

Ethiopian Ahmed Gives Tigrayan Forces 72 Hours To Surrender

November 24, 2020 1:51 am

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has given Tigrayan regional forces 72 hours to surrender before the military begins an offensive on the regional capital of Mekelle.

Abiy took to his twitter account urging the TPLF to surrender saying ‘We urge you to surrender peacefully within 72 hours, recognizing that you are at the point of no return.’

There is no response from Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), which is refusing to surrender its rule of the northern region, and who has also said its forces were digging trenches and standing firm.

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Ethiopia violence fuelled by fighters trained in Sudan -PM Abiy

Ethiopia Violence Fuelled By Fighters Trained In Sudan – Abiy

October 19, 2020 4:06 pm

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said Monday that fighters involved in recent attacks on civilians in the west of the country were receiving training and shelter in neighbouring Sudan and that Khartoum’s assistance was needed to stabilise the area.

Abiy’s government had previously said little about what was driving the violence in the Benishangul-Gumuz region, which opposition politicians have described as ethnically motivated.

At least 12 people were killed in an attack in the region’s Metekel zone last week, while at least 15 died in a similar attack in late September.

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