Is PM Abiy the only leader of a country with a PhD in Peaceful Conflict Resolution? Isn't it ironic that he refused to negotiate for 6 month?
How Ethiopia’s Abiy Ahmed went from man of peace to a leader at war (Financial Times)
Domestic conflict threatens to wreck any chance of peaceful democratic transition promised by Nobel Peace Prize winner
“War is the epitome of hell,” Abiy Ahmed, Ethiopia’s prime minister, told an audience in Oslo last December on accepting the Nobel Peace Prize for negotiating peace with the neighbouring country of Eritrea. Now Mr Abiy is at war again — this time with his own people.
In the early hours of Wednesday, after months of escalating tension, Ethiopia’s prime minister ordered troops into the restive northern region of Tigray after what he said had been an attack by Tigrayan soldiers on a federal army base.
Phone and internet lines to Tigray were cut and a six-month state of emergency declared, effectively sealing off the region. Both sides have reported casualties amid heavy fighting.
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Re: Is PM Abiy the only leader of a country with PhD in Peaceful Conflict Resolution? Isn't it ironic ?
It's amazing how someone could go from Nobel Peace Prize laureate to ICC indictment candidate in such a short time, unless he's fake to begin with.
