Isaias: Ethiopia Should Address Internal Issues, Not Fuel Conflict - Ethiopia Observer

Ethiopia Conflict Threatens to Create Another Challenge for Trump in Africa

As the Trump administration continues to play peacemaker in Africa, growing tensions in northern Ethiopia risk causing a new conflict that could jeopardize the administration’s priorities in the Horn of Africa. Renewed conflict in northern Ethiopia could easily escalate into a regional conflict, which would undermine the administration’s efforts to achieve peace in neighboring Sudan and create a vacuum that malignant actors—China, Iran, Russia, …

Isaias: Ethiopia should address internal issues, not fuel conflict - Ethiopia Observer

Eritrean President Isaias Afewerki said that his neighboring country, Ethiopia—which is at loggerheads with his own—should focus on resolving its internal issues instead of engaging in aggressive rhetoric that fuels conflict. He made the remarks in an interview with national television, Eri-TV, aired on Wednesday evening, 23 July. In the first part of the interview last Saturday, Isaias addressed the ongoing tensions involving Ethiopia. The seco…