Nairobi, Kenya (AP) – A university official says a recent air strike by the Ethiopian military has struck a school in the capital of the criminal Tigre region and caused major damage, while the United States says any party to the conflict heeded D-House’s call. Has not been. Growth.
A senior official described Thursday’s airstrikes in an email shared with the Associated Press. It was not immediately clear if anyone was killed or wounded in the McAllen airstrikes.
The senior official asked, “How on earth can the government bomb its own people?” The AP is not writing the name of the officer as they could not be reached directly.
There was no immediate comment from the Ethiopian government, which has been fighting the Tigris regional army since the November 4 attack on the military base there. Both sides have launched air strikes. Considering each other illegal, falling results among Nobel Peace Prize-winning Prime Minister Abiya Ahmed and Tigre leaders who once dominated the country’s ruling coalition.
After communications with the region broke down, no one knows how many people have been killed, and it is challenging to verify the claims of both parties.
“At this time, neither party is interested in mediation,” he said. No Assistant Secretary of State Tibor Nagy told reporters on Thursday evening.
Nagy said of the airstrikes: “I’m sure what you say is not true.”
Surrounded by the prospect of a catastrophe in Ethiopia and beyond, 17 U.S. senators in a letter Thursday urged Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to stop Abiyan for pushing for an immediate ceasefire.
The Ethiopian government has said it will put final pressure on Tigre’s capital, Macaulay, with the aim of arresting the ruling “group” of the region’s Tigre People’s Liberation Front. The TPLF angered Abi’s government when it objected to the postponement of national elections until next year and held its own elections in September.
Now, deadly fighting continues in a heavily armed region of nearly one million people, a clash some observers have compared to an inter-state war at the center of Africa’s strategic horn.
The humanitarian catastrophe is being exposed when the government of Abyssinia immediately rejects the international call for international talks. Food, fuel and medical supplies are running very fast in the Tigris region. Roads are blocked and the airport is closed.
More than 20,000,000 refugees have fled to Sudan, and the fighting has moved about 100,000 refugees from Eritrea to camps in northern Tigris.
“The electricity is being cut off. The fuel for the generator is exhausted. This leaves 96,000,000 Eritrean refugees in Ethiopia without access to clean water. UN spokesman Stephen Dujarric told reporters.
“A surprising number of people are moving from Ethiopia to Sudan. Each alone. Day, ”the UN refugee agency tweeted.
The Sudanese refugees said the fighting broke out so quickly that they hardly knew what they were fleeing.
“We didn’t know about the war or when it started,” said a man named Tera. “When we went to Sudan with their children, we saw a lot of corpses,” she said. “When they were fed up, we didn’t get food.”
About half of the refugees are children, and the United Nations says the conditions they are facing are “extremely harsh.”
Asked about efforts to open a humanitarian corridor, Michael Renoir, the U.S. ambassador to Ethiopia, told reporters that the TPLF “It’s not really related to the possibility.” Meanwhile, a senior Ethiopian official, Redwan Hussein, said the government plans a fact-finding mission in a humanitarian situation that “will not take more than a week.”
The fighting has also threatened to gain access to or destabilize Ethiopia’s neighbors, including Sudan, Somalia and Eritrea, whose capitals came under rocket attack. From TPLF over the weekend. Eritrea has remained largely silent while the TPLF has accused it of entering the conflict at Ethiopia’s request.
Nagy, the assistant secretary of state for African affairs, told reporters that U.S. Is in contact with Eritrean officials to request their “continued restraint”.
“Internationalizing the conflict, it’s an absolute risk that we’re trying our best, to avoid, this whole region is trying its best.”
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