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الرئيس الإثيوبي تايي أتسقي سيلاسي إن مؤتمر الحوار الوطني قدم رؤية جديدة لمعالجة المشكلات الداخلية وطرح مقاربات وحلولاً للنزاعات والأزمات والقضايا الخلافية، بما يسهم في تعزيز الاستقرار ودفع البلاد نحو تجاوز تحدياتها السياسي
If Egypt insists on a hand in the management of the GERD, then logically Ethiopia might well ask, in the spirit of reciprocity, for a hand in the management of the Suez Canal.
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Eritrea’s independence remains contested by Ethiopian nationalists who argue that the territorial settlement imposed during the colonial era severed Ethiopia from land, property and communities historically tied to it. In their view, the injustices that began in 1891 cannot simply be erased from the historical record.
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Video reportedly showing TPLF fighters captured in Sudan fighting by the RSF.
It is also worth noting that the TPLF has reportedly been carrying out forced conscription across Tigray for the past several months, including the recruitment of both elderly people and young people, reportedly as young as 15 years old.
After months of denying entering into an alliance with internal and external forces with an axe to grind against the Ethiopian federal government, the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) leadership has now reached the point of publicly declaring that it has crossed the Rubicon, as it were. According to it, there is no peaceful resolution to the impasse with the federal government, and it has decided to resort to force. The goal is not to liberate Western Tigray as many of us have always assumed the objective to be-preferably and more legitimately peacefully-but, as the head of the TPLF secretariat put it, because "the security of the people of Tigray can only be assured on the grave of the Prosperity Party led regime." It is abhorrent that any politician, entrusted with the welfare of their own constituency would frame their security as contingent on the demise of a domestically elected government. Needless to say, this is not the language of a leader seeking to protect their people, but of one prepared to sacrifice them for a cause dressed up as their salvation.
In light of the TPLF leadership's well-documented tradition of sloganeering, I'd not have cared one bit if Debretsion and his ilk had just been repeating an old mantra. But unfortunately, there obviously is an evil principle at work here. The very leadership that has presided over Tigray's continued descent into the seemingly bottomless pit of tragedy is now flaunting in public its rather ungodly alliance with the very forces vehemently opposed to the Pretoria Agreement. The alliance, we are told, is ostensibly meant to achieve, by force, not the rather modest objective of the fullest implementation of Pretoria, such as the restoration of Tigray's constitutionally mandated territory, but more pointedly, the removal of the government in Addis Ababa.
Indeed, the TPLF leadership has now publicly articulated, as the mainstay of its repertoire for addressing differences with the federal government, what it had long denied: that it has been working with the regime in Asmara and other forces opposed to Addis Ababa. Whatever the characterization here, it is now an open secret that the goal posts have shifted and the ultimate goal is the overthrow of the federal government, consequences be damned. I don't lose sleep over whether such a goal is achievable. It is not; but the ramifications of such a futile effort for peace in the region in general and for the very existence of the people of Tigray in particular cannot be overstated. The dramatis personae in this so-called alliance makes it abundantly clear that, if allowed their way, they would stop at nothing to wreak unmitigated havoc on the entire region.
Recent events bear this argument out. Peace cannot survive hidden military maneuvers. The skirmish in Shererina has made it clear how high the stakes are in this game of brinkmanship the regime in Asmara, its junior partners within Ethiopia, and its external handlers are orchestrating. The large cache of munitions and weapons captured is proof positive that far from addressing the plight of the people of Tigray, dismantling the Ethiopian state is the ultimate objective in this dangerous game. Covert transfers of heavy military equipment into Tigray or other parts of the country represent a clear and present danger to stability efforts across the Horn of Africa. Despite TPLF leaders' claims, the number of lives needlessly lost during that half a day engagement foreshadows the enormity of the disaster lurking ahead not just for the people of Tigray but for the people of Ethiopia at large.
What should matter to the members of the Tigray army is the survival and peace of the people of Tigray, not the survival of a handful of criminals who have always considered waging war their retirement plan. To the rank and file: tell those who are frittering your lives away that enough is enough.
🚨 Former Ethiopian diplomat Dina Mufti says Eritrea’s “open and incontestable” violation of its sovereignty has brought Ethiopia’s inherent right to self-defense, calling its response to Eritrean aggression “legitimate and justified under international law.”
🚨 UPDATE
As we previously reported, the following images show some of the weapons reportedly captured from TPLF forces on the Sharerina front. The photographs provide a closer look at military equipment seized by the ENDF during its counter-operation in response to the TPLF attack.