Ethiopia: fear of major conflict

A member of the Amhara armed forces patrols the streets of Soroka village, near the regional border with Tigray, November 9, 2020. REUTERS / Tiksa Negeri

By: Romain Auzouy

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The situation in Tigray raises many questions.

In this province of northern Ethiopia, the federal government has been leading a military offensive against the TPLF, the Tigray Peoples Liberation Front, for almost two weeks.

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The conflict is worrying because the Tigrayans are powerful militarily, while the army of Addis-Adeba can count on the support of the Amhara region.

In a border area with Eritrea but also with Sudan, can the conflict become regional?

At the same time, other ethnic tensions are currently erupting in Ethiopia: should the international authorities intervene to extract the country from violence?

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research director at CNRS, specialist in the Middle East and the Horn of Africa attached to the University of Tours.

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