Tigray proving to be a Sparta in Africa

Ethiopia's prime minister, Abiy Ahmed is rolling the dice and hoping to build a rapidly expanded army that will reconquer Tigray, where almost half of the country’s army was based.

If Ethiopia's prime minister, Abiy Ahmed, pictured at a UN address, makes a quick deal with the Tigrayans that ends the blockade and recognizes their independence and borders, he may have enough troops and credibility left to suppress the Oromos and other ethnic insurgents who will soon come out into the open, writes Gwynne Dyer. Screen capture via UN's YouTube page

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

August 31, 2021

LONDON, U.K.—“We have to deal with anyone who’s still shooting,” said Getachew Reda, spokesman for the Tigrayan forces, early this month. “If it takes marching to Addis to silence the guns, we will.” In fact, Tigray’s army has already covered about a thir...

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