Horn Review:-"If TPLF refrains from its acts of belligerence, OPDO could continue its restraint against Eritrea"
Posted: 25 Sep 2025, 14:31
As this article from one of OPDO's bigwigs, Lencho Bati, reveals, the Assab bravado of the OPDO government is simply empty hot air. They are masking their fear of being taken over by forces waging war against the OPDO regime.
"Unless a way can be found to pressure the TPLF hardliners to abandon their plan to resume hostilities, the conflagration in northern Ethiopia becomes inevitable. Without the hardliners and the sizeable armed forces that they still command, the Eritrean government will not be capable of waging war against Ethiopia. And so long as these hardliners refrain from acts of belligerence, the federal government in Addis Ababa could be counted to continue its policy of restraint in the face of various provocations it has faced from the TPLF hardliners. The TPLF hardliners are training and arming new combat units, have forcibly taken over some of the contested areas, such as Raya, they have used force to dismantle the interim administration established by the federal government in accordance with the Pretoria agreement."
https://hornreview.org/2025/09/24/the-e ... lf-factor/
"Unless a way can be found to pressure the TPLF hardliners to abandon their plan to resume hostilities, the conflagration in northern Ethiopia becomes inevitable. Without the hardliners and the sizeable armed forces that they still command, the Eritrean government will not be capable of waging war against Ethiopia. And so long as these hardliners refrain from acts of belligerence, the federal government in Addis Ababa could be counted to continue its policy of restraint in the face of various provocations it has faced from the TPLF hardliners. The TPLF hardliners are training and arming new combat units, have forcibly taken over some of the contested areas, such as Raya, they have used force to dismantle the interim administration established by the federal government in accordance with the Pretoria agreement."
https://hornreview.org/2025/09/24/the-e ... lf-factor/