“We are not interested in taking over the province of Afar. We want to open the door to humanitarian aid,” Getachew said. “We decided to withdraw from these areas to Tigray. Getachew Reda, a spokesman for the TPLF, said the Tigrayan troops were pulling out of Amhara and Afar. At the end of November, the Ethiopian military began an offensive that pushed the advancing Tigrayan forces back hundreds of kilometres.
His troops seized Tigray’s capital, Mekelle, in late November but by June, the Tigrayan forces had launched a counterattack that saw them retake much of their region and expand fighting into the neighbouring Amhara and Afar regions. The conflict erupted in November 2020 between the federal government and the TPLF, which dominated Ethiopian politics for nearly 30 years before Prime Minister Abiy came to power in 2018.Ībiy, the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, promised a swift victory. His letter called for a no-fly zone for hostile aircraft over Tigray, imposing arms embargoes on Ethiopia and its ally Eritrea, and a UN mechanism to verify that external armed forces had withdrawn from Tigray. Keep reading list of 3 items list 1 of 3 The Conflict in Ethiopia | Start Here list 2 of 3 Ethiopia forces claim recapturing of towns from Tigray rebels list 3 of 3 Rights groups report wave of abuses against Tigrayans in Ethiopia end of list
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