Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed announced the final victory of the federal troops a few days ago, except that the fighting in reality continues in the interior of the province. It is not possible to get hold of the TPLF leaders and the Ministry of Defense encourages the residents to condemn them.
as reported from Addis Ababa, Noé Rochet-Bodin
210,000 euros is what the citizens get that allows the government to find the leaders of the TPLF party. A huge sum, betraying above all the difficulties of the Ethiopian authorities in arresting the Tigrayan leaders, especially among them Debretsion Gebremichael, party president and province.
Debretsion and his lieutenants withdrew and left Mekele in early December, they have been inaccessible ever since. They assured at the time that they wanted to fight to the death from the mountains of Tigray … A sense of déjà vu, TPLF actually built its fame on the guerrillas they led in the 1980s from the countryside in the province.
For his part, Abiy Ahmed wanted to be reassured when he announced the final victory three weeks ago. He showed surveillance drones that enabled him to “know exactly the movements of his fleeing enemies.” We must believe that this has not been enough to neutralize them so far.
The government announced that it had arrested one of the TPLF leaders on December 1. Almost three weeks later, confirmation of this arrest is still pending.
On Sunday, the leaders of the Horn of Africa will meet in Djibouti under the leadership of IGAD’s regional authority. An important regional summit, with the apparent crisis in Tigray but also the clashes on the Ethio-Sudanese border and the severance of diplomatic ties between Kenya and Somalia.
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