EDITORIAL: Ethiopia and Tigray must be brought to the negotiation table
Dialogue could prevent a conflict that would plunge the entire region into a nightmare war
15 November 2020 - 19:19
When Abiy Ahmed walked to the stage in Oslo to accept the Nobel Peace Prize almost a year ago, the Ethiopian prime minister recalled how, as a young soldier in the 1998-2000 border war with Eritrea, he witnessed thousands being killed in trenches and minefields
“War is the epitome of hell — I know because I have been there and back,” he told the Nobel committee in December 2019...
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