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By Addis Getachew
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia
Ethiopia’s prime minister paid a surprise visit on Sunday to Mekele, the capital of the country’s northernmost Tigray region.
Abiy Ahmed made the trip one day before the resumption of civil services and business activities, as announced on Saturday by the Tigray Regional State Interim Administration.
The prime minister held talks with army generals who led a successful police operation launched by his government in November after defiant forces from the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) stormed the northern command of the army stationed in Tigray.
The TPLF leadership and the commanders of its combatants are now being hunted down and will face criminal charges, including high treason.
According to Ethiopia’s state news agency, Abiy affirmed his government’s commitment to rebuilding Tigray and continuing to provide humanitarian aid to the people of the region.
During the police operation and the heavy fighting that followed, 50,000 people fled to neighboring Sudan.
The operation was carried out from November 4 to 28 until the regional capital fell into the hands of the federal army.
Rumors circulate widely on social media that most of the TPLF leaders were detained or neutralized, but there has been no official confirmation.
The only confirmation that the government has made so far is that the former president of the Federation Chamber, Keriya Ibrahim, surrendered while the former Ethiopian ambassador to China Adisalem Balema, who held a high position in the TPLF, was captured.
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