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With Ethiopia’s federal army saying it now controls Mekele, capital of the dissident northern Tigray region, we look at the worrying conflict in Africa’s second most populous country. A timeline of the crisis: – Power struggle – The fighting has its roots in street protests that toppled the previous Tigray-dominated government in 2018. While Tigrayans
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Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has declared an end to the military offensive on Tigray, although observers suggested on Sunday that this might not spell the end of the conflict. Ahmed said on Saturday that the armed forces had taken Mekelle, the capital of the region in the country’s north, and that the central government
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Tigray forces fired rockets into a neighbouring Ethiopian state on Friday, heightening fears the internal conflict could spread to other parts of the country, a day after the federal government said its forces were closing in on the dissident region’s capital. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, last year’s Nobel Peace Prize winner, unleashed a military campaign
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Nigeria’s former president Olusegun Obasanjo on Monday jetted to Ethiopia to mediate in the conflict between the nation’s government and the northern Tigray region, his spokesman said. “He is on his way to Addis Ababa for talks,” Kehinde Akinyemi told AFP on the visit of Obasanjo to the Ethiopian capital. “He is going there for
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Ethiopia’s military said Thursday it was at “war” with the ruling party of the country’s northern Tigray region, as fighting continued for a second day and troops reportedly amassed at the region’s borders. Heated rhetoric from both sides and fresh violence in western Tigray suggested Africa’s second most populous country was heading for an extended
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Ageing war veterans and university students joined long pre-dawn lines in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region to vote Wednesday in parliamentary elections that Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s government has deemed illegal. Polls opened at 6am (0300 GMT) across the mountainous northern Tigray region despite a federal decision to postpone all elections because of the coronavirus pandemic.
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