U.S. Official Calls for Cease-Fire as Ethiopia Conflict Deepens
- Tigray region has been engulfed in conflict since November
- Conflict has spread to Ethiopia’s Amhara and Afar regions
Soldiers of Tigray Defence Force (TDF) in Tigray.
Photographer: Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/Getty Images
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The head of the U.S Agency for International Development called for an end to hostilities and on anti-government forces to withdraw from two regions bordering Ethiopia’s war-ravaged Tigray region.
Samantha Power’s comments in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, came after the U.S. State Department reinforced its calls for Tigray forces, which have been embroiled in a nine-month conflict with the government of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, to “withdraw its associated military forces immediately from the Amhara and Afar regions.”