Foreign nationals continue to leave the country. Saturday evening November 27, a charter flight was chartered by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs to repatriate French citizens to Paris. These measures taken by most of the embassies follow the advance of the Tigrayan rebels 180 kilometers north of Addis Ababa. But in recent days, the federal army seems to have slowed down this progression.
With our correspondent in Addis Ababa, Noé Rochet-Bodin
By announcing to go to the front, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed wanted to start a counteroffensive. And since then, the federal forces, well helped by the militias of the Afar and Amhara regions, have stabilized the various fronts.
First in the east in the Afar region, where the federal army and militiamen took over two towns from the Tigrayan forces, with the intensive use of drones, recently acquired by Addis Ababa but which were slow to use them.
Then, in the Amhara region, the advance of the Tigrayian Defense Forces stopped on the mountain of Debre Sina, 180 km from Addis Ababa. Without access to the media, and without telecommunications, it is difficult to know the exact positions of the insurgents, who nevertheless carry out bypass operations in the region.
Still, the Prime Minister’s call to join the front worked. Several Ethiopian political, cultural and sports personalities have all in turn publicly supported the war effort.
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