It will end there,” in Tigray, the deputy chief of the Ethiopian National Defense Force, Birhanu Jula, said on state television. Clashes erupted in Tigray on Wednesday after Abiy, the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize winner, sent troops into Tigray province and declared a “military confrontation” after the regional government attacked a federal military base. A senior State Department official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to comment frankly on the volatile conflict, said he had heard “wildly contradictory” reports about events on the ground in Tigray. We are ready to be martyrs.”Human Rights Watch called on Abiy’s government to immediately restore communications to the region, saying it hampered critical reporting of events affecting people’s health and safety in Tigray. “It also undermines their rights to question the government’s account of events,” Mausi Segun, Africa director at Human Rights Watch, said in a statement.

Source: Ethiopian News November 05, 2020 23:28 UTC