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For several months, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has denied that Eritrean troops were involved in the war in Tigray, contrary to a growing number of eyewitnesses who claim that Eritrean soldiers not only participated in regular battles with the movement. TPLF, but also carried out widespread abuses against the civilian population.
But on tuesday Prime Minister Abiy made a complete turnaround, declaring in a speech to Parliament that Eritrea had assisted the Ethiopian Federal Army.
“The Eritrean people and the government did our soldiers a favor,” said Abiy, who later admitted that not all efforts were in line with the conventions.
Abiy announced on Friday morning that Eritrea had agreed to withdraw its troops from the “border areas”.
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The two countries were at war For 20 years, but after the TPLF, a Tigray-based group that previously dominated Ethiopian politics, was sidelined, new ties have been forged between former enemies. The armies made common cause against the TPLF after a military base was attacked outside the town of Mekelle in Tigray.
The war broke out on the night of the American elections. Although Donald Trump did not prove to be a regular president with limited room for maneuver in the run-up to the transfer of power, he showed little interest in escalating the situation in and around Ethiopia, an important partner of the United States. States of the region.
Now President Joe Biden entered the track. Last weekend, US Senator Chris Coons arrived in Addis Ababa, where he held talks with the regime both about the Tigray and the controversial construction of the Nile Dam, which could trigger the war between Ethiopia and Egypt.
Now the US media is writing that Foreign Minister Antony Blinken is about to appoint former UN summit Jeffrey Feltman as a special envoy for the Horn of Africa. This growing American interest is likely to be a decisive explanation for the Abiy mosaic.
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Eritrea agrees with Ethiopia: troops withdraw
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