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End of the Ethiopian empire?

Saturday, 10 July 2021 | Gwynne Dyer

Ethiopia can survive losing Tigray, but the wholesale disintegration of Africa's second-biggest country would be an almost limitless disaster

Most analysts thought it would take a year or two of guerilla war for the rebels in Tigray to drive Ethiopian federal forces out of their state, but it has only taken eight months. “The capital of Tigray, Mekelle, is under our control,” Getachew Reda, spokesperson for the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), told Reuters on satellite phone on Monday.

The Ethiopian government, scrambling to disguise its defeat, immediately declared a “unilateral ceasefire” in the rebel state until September, ostensibly to allow farmers to plant their crops, but nobody was fooled. Tigray is gone, and other states may follow. This could even be the first act in the disintegration of the old Ethiopian empire...

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10 Jul 2021, 06:42

End of the Ethiopian empire?

Saturday, 10 July 2021 | Gwynne Dyer

Ethiopia can survive losing Tigray, but the wholesale disintegration of Africa's second-biggest country would be an almost limitless disaster

Most analysts thought it would take a year or two of guerilla war for the rebels in Tigray to drive Ethiopian federal forces out of their state, but it has only taken eight months. “The capital of Tigray, Mekelle, is under our control,” Getachew Reda, spokesperson for the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), told Reuters on satellite phone on Monday.

The Ethiopian government, scrambling to disguise its defeat, immediately declared a “unilateral ceasefire” in the rebel state until September, ostensibly to allow farmers to plant their crops, but nobody was fooled. Tigray is gone, and other states may follow. This could even be the first act in the disintegration of the old Ethiopian empire...

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