Ethiopia: beginning of rupture between the authorities of Addis Ababa and the State of Tigray
View of the Tigrayan capital Mekele in Ethiopia, January 25, 2018. Wikimedia Commons Copyleft A. Savin
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In Ethiopia, members of the Federal Parliament began to announce the modalities of the rift between the authorities in Addis Ababa and the regional state of Tigray, in a state of de facto rebellion.
The latter for his part no longer considers the government of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed as "legitimate", considering that his mandate expired on Monday.
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The Ethiopian federal government will no longer have any interaction with the executive of the state of Tigray and its various bodies.
From now on, he will only have to deal with the lower echelons, the municipalities and the district administrations, the kebelle, in order to maintain "
the basic services
" of the state.
These are the decisions taken Tuesday evening by the deputies of the federation.
And on Wednesday, federal subsidies to Tigray were suspended.
But for now, no security measure has been announced.
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See also: Ethiopia: growing tensions between the State of Tigray and the federal authorities
On the Tigrayan side, the 38 deputies of the upper house and the 8 deputies of the lower house were recalled to Mekele.
Provincial leaders have been spending a lot of time on television in recent days, explaining the situation to Tigrayans.
According to them, the regional state is still governed by federal law, but not by any provisions that would be adopted after October 5, the date of the expiration of Abiy Ahmed's mandate.
No showdown, therefore, while calls for the formation of a technocratic transitional government are multiplying in the opposition, in order to get the federation out of the impasse.
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See also: Ethiopia: the State of Tigray ready to face Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed
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