The exceptional regime had been decreed while the Typient rebels threatened to walk on Addis Ababa.
Le Monde with AFP
The Ethiopian Parliament raised, Tuesday, February 15, the state of emergency imposed in November 2021, when the tygy rebels threatened to walk on Addis Ababa. “The Chamber of Deputies of Ethiopia today approved the lifting of the emergency state imposed for six months,” Twitted the Ethiopian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, three months before the scheduled deadline.
This vote of Ethiopian MPs followed a proposal from the Office of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed to relax the state of time of war imposed initially until May. The state of emergency had been proclaimed on November 2, 2021, while fighters from the Popular Liberation Front of the Tiger (TPLF) had just seized two strategic cities on the road to the Ethiopian capital.
In terms of emergency state, tygreens mass arrests had been conducted in Addis Ababa and the rest of the country, triggering a series of convictions of international human rights defense organizations. The state of emergency had also coincided with a general mobilization campaign and bombing that finally rejected the rebellious forces towards the Tiger, aroused the hope of seeing the fights stop.
In December, Addis Ababa announced that the army would not continue them, but several drone keystrokes touched the tabby in the following weeks. At the end of January, the TPLF announced having resumed the fighting in the neighboring area of AFAR, after attacks according to him of pro-governmental forces on his positions.
“Extreme Shortage”
The conflict has made several thousand deaths, more than 2 million displaced and plunged hundreds of thousands of Ethiopians under conditions close to famine, according to the United Nations.
The Tiger has been for several months subjected to the UN qualifying “facto blockade” of humanitarian aid, each camp referring responsibility. Washington accuses the government to block help, while Addis-Ababa impute the situation with rebel incursions. The World Food Program (WFP) estimated that nearly 40% of the Tiger’s population suffered from “extreme shortage of food”.
The WFP specified that International humanitarian NGOs operating in the region are short of fuel and forced to support their help to civilians suffering from malnutrition. On Friday, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) stated that humanitarian operations were almost interrupted because of these shortages.
Abiy Ahmed, Nobel Peace Prize 2019, sent in November 2020 the Federal Army to the Tiger to dismiss the regional authorities from the TPLF, which challenged his authority and that he accused of attacking military bases. In accordance with many twists, the fights were then extended to the neighboring areas of AFAR and the Amhara.