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The communications office in the Ethiopian region of Amhara, which borders Tigray in the north of the country, said on Saturday that two explosions occurred in two cities in the region.
The Communications Office confirmed that the explosions occurred in Bahir Dar and Gondar on Friday night.
The emergency team stated that the Tigrayan Liberation Front fired two missiles at the cities of Bahardar and Gondar on Friday night, causing damage to the airports in the two cities.
Earlier, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed had called on the forces and militias of the Tigrayan Liberation Front to surrender to the National Army in two days, “to save their lives,” as he described it.
The Ethiopian army broke the siege imposed by rebel forces in the Tigray region and began to regain the sites they lost after counterattacks, on Thursday, at a time when the Ethiopian Federal Parliament revoked the immunity of 39 officials from the rebel Front of Liberation of Tigray.
The Chief of Staff of the Ethiopian Army, General Berhanu Gula, said that the Northern Command, which was under siege for five days, was attacking on all fronts and was recovering many of the sites it had lost.
Burhanu added that battalions 7, 8, 23, 11, 31, 20, fourth and fifth were able to break through the siege and regroup to launch attacks on various fronts. He considered the remaining army’s mission to be small compared to what has been accomplished so far, noting that the army has reorganized and seized areas from Dansha and Hamira airport to Bakir in Tigray.
The population of the Tigray region, which borders Eritrea to the north and Sudan to the west, is about five million people and enjoys semi-autonomy within the federal system followed in Ethiopia.
Ethiopia is already suffering from ethnic divisions and major economic crises when Abiy Ahmed took power about two years ago. In 2017, more than a million Ethiopians were forced to flee for reasons related to ethnic and other conflicts related to droughts and severe food and service shortages in some areas.
But Abe faced a great test, when nearly 240 people were killed in the violence and protests that erupted in Ethiopia last July when ethnic clashes broke out over the murder of folk singer Hasalo Hondisa, whom many members of the ethnic group ” Oromo “to which Abe is a voice for his suffering. Marginalization.
These protests broke out in the capital Addis Ababa and the surrounding region of Oromia, from which the country’s largest nationality is descended and which has always felt marginalized and persecuted in the multi-ethnic country, but many observers consider the current crisis in the Tigray region may be a major test for Abe due to its local and regional complications. Especially in terms of its interference in the relationship between the two neighbors, Sudan and Eritrea.
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