[ad_1]
Issued on:
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni met with Ethiopia’s Foreign Minister on Monday to discuss the growing conflict in that country and urged negotiations between the conflicting parties.
Museveni met with Demeke Mekonnen, Ethiopia’s Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, to discuss the nearly two-week conflict in the dissident northern region of Tigray.
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed announced on November 4 that he had ordered military operations in Tigray in a dramatic escalation of a long-standing dispute with the region’s ruling party, the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF).
Hundreds have died and thousands have fled the country amid airstrikes and heavy fighting that observers fear could lead to a protracted civil war.
“A war in Ethiopia would give the entire continent a bad image,” Museveni wrote on Twitter after the meeting in the northern city of Gulu.
“There should be negotiations and the conflict stopped, lest it lead to unnecessary loss of life and paralyze the economy.”
(AFP)
