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Yesterday, the Ethiopian army admitted that the country had entered a civil war, after Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed declared war on the rebel authorities in the northern region of Tigray.
Army Deputy Chief of Staff Burhan Gula said during a press conference in the Ethiopian capital: “Our country entered a war that it did not expect. This war is shameful, it is absurd.”
He added: “We will make sure the war does not spread to the center of the country,” and is limited to Tigray.
This came after the Ethiopian parliament approved the imposition of a state of emergency in the Tigray region.
On Wednesday morning, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed imposed a state of emergency for six months in Tigray, shortly after announcing a military operation against the authorities in the region, whom he accused of attacking Ethiopian army bases.
According to diplomatic and humanitarian sources, the clashes seem to be concentrated so far in western Tigray. But it is difficult to draw a clear picture of the situation on the ground, since it appears that the Internet was cut off in the area during the previous night, according to the specialized website “Netblocks”.
Ahmed, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2019, seeks to re-impose the authority of the federal government in the region governed by the Tigray People’s Liberation Front, which has been challenging his authority for months, accusing Ahmed, who is from the Oromo ethnic group, to gradually marginalize the Tigrayana minority (6 percent of the population) within the ruling coalition, from which they withdrew and moved into the ranks of the opposition.
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