State-affiliated TV says Ethiopia's PM is at the battlefront

NAIROBI – A state-affiliated broadcaster connected Friday purportedly showed Ethiopia’s Nobel Peace Prize-winning premier curate connected the battlefront of the country’s yearlong war against Tigray forces, 4 days aft helium announced helium would nonstop the service from there.

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, successful subject uniform, claimed that the warfare “is being conducted with a precocious level of success” and referred to locations connected the borderline betwixt the country’s Amhara and Afar regions, which neighbour Tigray.

Tens of thousands of radical person been killed successful the warfare that erupted successful November 2020 betwixt Ethiopian forces and the Tigray forces who had agelong dominated the nationalist authorities earlier Abiy took bureau successful 2018. The authorities declared a authorities of exigency this period arsenic Tigray fighters moved person to the capital, Addis Ababa, and the United States and others person told their citizens to permission immediately.

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Foreign media person been barred from Tigray for overmuch of the war, with communications links severed.

Late Thursday, Ethiopia’s authorities issued an bid seeking to restrict media reporting of the war, forbidding the sharing of non-official accusation connected “military-related movements, battlefront results and situations.”

The statement, which applies to everyone successful the country, besides warns that “supporting the (rival Tigray forces) straight oregon indirectly successful the sanction of state code should cease immediately.” And it powerfully warned against calls for the enactment of a transitional government.

Security forces volition “take measures” against violators, it said, but didn't elaborate.

Abiy was awarded the Nobel successful 2019 aft announcing sweeping governmental reforms to the repressive authorities and restoring relations with neighboring Eritrea aft years of conflict. His authorities has since allowed Eritrean soldiers to participate Tigray and combat alongside Ethiopian ones.

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