Oda Tarby, a spokesman for the Oromo Liberation Army, said that the entry of the fighters of the army allied with the Tigray People’s Liberation Front, the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, is only a matter of weeks and not months, while Ethiopian Prime Minister Abi Ahmed pledged to thwart the country’s transformation into something similar to Libya or Syria, and the Prime Minister’s statement came A day after the authorities declared a state of emergency in the country.

A spokesman for the Oromo Liberation Army, which allied last August with the Tigray People's Liberation Front, said that the army entered several cities in the south of the strategic city of Kombolcha, including Kimisi, 320 kilometers from Addis Ababa.

In response to a question about the possibility of entering the capital, Oda Tarabi said, "If things continue at the current pace, then it will be a matter of months, if not weeks," and the same spokesman added that the fall of Prime Minister Abi Ahmed "is a foregone conclusion."

The Tigray Liberation Front said last Saturday and Sunday that it had captured two strategic cities, Disi and Kombolcha, 400 km north of the Ethiopian capital, and the front did not rule out the advance towards Addis Ababa.

The Tigray Liberation Front said last Saturday and Sunday that it had captured two strategic cities, Disi and Kombolcha, 400 km north of the Ethiopian capital, and the front did not rule out advancing towards Addis Ababa.

case of emergency

The Ethiopian government denied the two cities had fallen into the hands of the rebels, and on Tuesday declared a state of emergency in all parts of the country in the face of security threats represented by the rebels making field gains and approaching the capital.

The Addis Ababa authorities called on the residents to organize their ranks to defend the city by taking up arms and defending the capital's neighborhoods.

After the state of emergency was declared, it was reported that people from Tigray province in the capital had been arrested on the basis of ethnicity and taken away by the police on Tuesday evening. Determine their ethnicity.

The Ethiopian parliament is expected to ratify today, Wednesday, the state of emergency announced by the authorities yesterday, and this order will allow the authorities to recruit “any citizen of fighting age and possess a weapon,” or suspend media outlets suspected of “providing direct or indirect moral support” to the FNL. The people of Tigray, according to the state-run Fana channel.

Getachew Reda, a spokesman for the Tigray Liberation Front, described the measures announced by Addis Ababa as "absolute authorization to imprison or kill the Tigray Front elements."

Abi Ahmed accused the alliance of the Tigray Liberation Front and the Oromo Liberation Army of turning Ethiopia into something like Libya or Syria (Anatolia)

Abi Ahmed's statements

The Prime Minister of Ethiopia accused the alliance of the Tigray Liberation Front and the Oromo Liberation Army of turning Ethiopia into something similar to Libya or Syria, and vowed to thwart these endeavors, and said in a message marking the first anniversary of the start of the war in the northern Tigray region of the country, "They want to destroy a state, not build it."

Abiy Ahmed promised to bury his government's enemies "with our blood and our bones, and we will raise Ethiopia's glory anew."

The Ethiopian government said today, Wednesday, that the Air Force carried out raids on a military training center for the Tigray People’s Liberation Front group in the Ade Jart area, north of the Tigray region. A city in Tigray province is exposed to air raids after the cities of Mekele and Adwa.

foreign embassies

Following the deterioration of the security situation in Ethiopia, the US Embassy in Addis Ababa today renewed its call on its citizens to prepare to leave the country, and also warned its citizens against traveling to Ethiopia due to the risk of an escalation of armed conflicts.

In a statement on its Twitter page today, the Kuwaiti Ministry of Foreign Affairs called on Kuwaiti citizens in Ethiopia to leave immediately, and asked those wishing to travel to the African country to wait and postpone their travel.

We strongly suggest that US citizens seriously reconsider travel to Ethiopia and those who are currently in Ethiopia consider making preparations to leave the country.

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— US Embassy Addis (@USEmbassyAddis) November 3, 2021

The Qatari embassy in Ethiopia today also called on Qatari citizens to leave the Ethiopian territory as soon as possible, and to take the highest levels of caution and caution due to the recent security events.

Russia has expressed concern about the developments in Ethiopia, and Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova called - in her weekly press briefing - for the parties to the conflict in Ethiopia to show political will and a ceasefire as soon as possible.

UN report

On the humanitarian side of the conflict in Ethiopia, the first UN investigation revealed that all parties to the conflict in the Tigray region committed, to varying degrees, human rights violations, some of which may amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity.

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet, presented some of what was stated in the joint UN-Ethiopia report, and said that civilians in Tigray "were subjected to brutal violence, and the joint investigation team revealed many violations, including extrajudicial killings, executions, torture, and sexual assault, ethnic violence, abuses against refugees, and forced displacement of civilians.”