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Africa Horn
Armed conflict in Ethiopia will bring down security in Africa
2021-11-13
Direct Translation via Google Translate. Edited.
[REGNUM] Events in Ethiopia may have a negative impact on security in neighboring countries of this African region, reports BBC Africa on November 12.

The publication published the opinion of a senior US military official in Africa, General William Zana, who explained the possible consequences of this conflict.

In particular, Ethiopia keeps troops in neighboring Somalia, supporting the local government.

"If the internal conflict in Ethiopia forces it to make a decision to withdraw troops from Somalia, five more African Union countries will also be affected. And in Somalia, it will be possible for violent extremist organizations to become more active," Zana said.

In addition, he expressed concern about the possibility of military action by Egypt against the "Great Ethiopian Renaissance Dam" (GERD) in the event of deepening instability in Ethiopia.

As reported by IA REGNUM , the armed conflict in Tigray in northern Ethiopia has been going on since November 2020. Fighting is between supporters of the NPLT party,
...the Tigray People's Liberation Front. Surprisingly, they’re Marxists, but they’re special, ethnic Tigrayan Marxists who annoyed the other ethnic groups by organizing the country to benefit themselves...
which has been in power in Ethiopia for almost 30 years, and the government of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed.
... Africa's youngest leader at only 44, he won a Nobel prize for democratic reforms and for making peace with Eritrea. A non-Tigrayan former soldier who once fought alongside the Tigrayans against Eritrea, he took over in 2018, replacing the Tigrayan-led government that had dominated politics since rebels from their region toppled Ethiopia’s Marxist military rulers in 1991...
I've been watching this for the purely selfish reason of wanting good Ethiopian coffee. As far as I can tell the ruling elite are a minority in the capital and several other towns. They have been cruel, thieving and nasty to everybody. Tigray just exploded first. Everybody not in the capital and a couple urban centers hate them. It is sort of like the Blue City Cores of the Democrats going a 1000 times more nuts then they currently are and totally exploiting and crushing the rest of the nation. It makes a kind of strange sense. Ethiopia was a communist dictatorship for many years. The center core of the cities are likely children and relatives of the previous government's communist civil servants and party members. If the Democratic Party Leadership had brains they would learn something from the mess in Ethiopia.
The thought occurs that if the Democratic party leadership had brains, they’d be Republicans.
Via Russian military journalist Boris Rozhin:
2nd MI-35 gunship shot down:

Related:
Ethiopia: 2021-11-11 US Secretary of State Antony Blinken voices that diplomacy will succeed in halting a deadly war in Ethiopia
Ethiopia: 2021-11-09 Leader of Ethiopia's Oromo rebels predicts victory 'very soon'
Ethiopia: 2021-11-08 Tigray forces fighting Ethiopia’s government on Sunday played down reports that they would face a hostile population or cause a “bloodbath”
Posted by:badanov

#2  Besoeker that deserves a Snark-O-the-Day!
Posted by: 3dc   2021-11-13 05:54  

#1  Armed conflict in Ethiopia will bring down security in Africa

How will we know ?
Posted by: Besoeker   2021-11-13 01:55  

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