Ethiopia’s war in Tigray enters new phase

Here we are only less than two weeks later, and the federal government’s troops have already captured Mekelle, a city of half a million people that is Tigray’s capital.

Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed launched an invasion of Tigray state on Nov. 4, and so far, it’s been doing very well.Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

November 30, 2020

LONDON, U.K.—“Love always wins. Killing others is a defeat,” said Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed in June 2018, shortly after surviving a grenade attack at a rally in Meskel Square in the capital, Addis Ababa. How was he to know that just 30 months after ...

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