U.S. Says Escalating Ethiopia Crisis Risks Talks’ Progress
- U.S. opposes threat to Addis Ababa by Tigrayan forces
- The conflict hasn’t slowed despite efforts at negotiation
People who fled the war from May Tsemre, Addi Arkay and Zarima gather in a temporary internally displaced people’s camp to receive bags of wheat from the World Food Programme in Debark, Ethiopia, on Sept. 15.
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The U.S. special envoy to the Horn of Africa said the escalating conflict in Ethiopia is jeopardizing progress that has been made on bringing the two sides together to negotiate an end to the yearlong crisis.
“What I sense is a much greater willingness to how you would put together the pieces of a negotiating process,” Jeffrey Feltman said at a briefing in Washington on Tuesday. “What worries us is while there’s some nascent progress, it’s highly at risk of being outpaced by the military escalation on the two sides.”