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Ethiopian forces declare control of a city in the Tigray region, and the region’s president says Ethiopian forces are using Asmara airport in their military operation against his area.
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Ethiopian refugees who fled the fighting in Tigray, in the state of Kassala, in eastern Sudan (AFP).
Ethiopian forces seized control of a city in the Tigray region, according to the emergency task force, and accused local leaders of removing 10,000 prisoners from the city as they fled. Regional authorities claimed that missiles were fired at the Eritrean capital.
The president of the Tigray region said Ethiopian forces are using the Asmara airport in Eritrea in their military operation against his region, making it a legitimate target.
Uganda, for its part, has intensified its meetings with Ethiopian officials, in order to stop the Tigrayan conflicts in Ethiopia.
Today, Monday, the President of Uganda, Yoweri Museveni, met with the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ethiopia, Demiki Mekonnen. Museveni called in the meeting the need to hold negotiations to stop the conflict in Tigray, according to the tweets that Museveni published on his Twitter account.
There are numerous reports that Uganda has also held meetings with the leaders of Tigray, to find a compromise between all parties.
Museveni also tweeted on his Twitter account, saying: “The war in Ethiopia will tarnish the image of all of Africa.”
“There must be negotiations and the conflict must stop, lest this lead to unnecessary loss of life and paralyze the economy,” added the Ugandan president.
But the Ethiopian government came out with categorical statements to those Ugandan attempts, saying that the meeting of the foreign minister with the Ugandan president was not an attempt at mediation.
“We will not accept any mediation effort at all, because the Tigrayan crisis is local and an internal matter will be resolved internally,” the Ethiopian government said, as reported by Reuters.
The leader of the Ethiopian region of Tigray, Debrision Gebramikail, said on Sunday that his forces bombed the capital of Eritrea and the airport of the capital Asmara on Saturday night.
Speaking to Reuters, Gabramikail stated that his forces “fought against Eritrean forces on various fronts in recent days”, noting that his forces did not bomb the Eritrean city of Massawa.
Regional diplomats previously said that at least 3 missiles were fired at Eritrea’s capital Asmara from Ethiopia on Saturday night, while three diplomats said that at least two missiles hit Asmara airport.
The Ethiopian army’s military campaign has continued in the northern region of Tigray, which lies on the border with Eritrea and Sudan, since 4 November.
The Ethiopian Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed, had declared war on the armed groups belonging to the Tigray region, following disagreements between the federal government and the regional government on the date of the general elections, which the government of Abi Ahmed delayed a year due to the Corona epidemic, as well as attacks launched by armed men on the sites of the forces. Government. Hundreds of people have died from the ongoing tensions.
In context, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and a local official said on Sunday that the number of people fleeing to Sudan from the ongoing conflict in northern Ethiopia has risen to at least 20,000.
UNHCR data indicated that more than 12,500 refugees crossed the border at Hamdayit, with almost 7,500 people crossing the border at that time between November 7 and 14.
The United Nations and the African Union expressed concern that the fighting could spread to other regions of Ethiopia and destabilize the Horn of Africa region.
The conflict in the Tigray region caused the displacement of thousands of their homes, and Sudan was informed that it had received around 20 thousand refugees from Ethiopia, according to the Director of the Refugee Administration in the state of Kassala in a statement to “Sputnik”.
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