Ethiopia’s Prime Minister at Frontline with Army in Afar Area – State Affiliated Television

NAIROBI, Nov. 26 (Reuters) – Ethiopian Prime Minister Abi Ahmed is on the front line with the army fighting rebel Tigraian forces in the northeastern Afar region, state-affiliated Fana broadcasting reported on Friday.

Abby was wearing military fatigue and spoke to the television station in the Afaan Oromo and Amharic languages, according to the broadcast. Reuters could not independently verify exactly where it was filmed.

“What you see over there is a mountain that was captured by the enemy until yesterday. Now we have captured it completely captured,” Abbey said with a hat and sunglasses on.

“The morale of the army is very exciting,” he said, adding that “today we are capturing the town of Chifra, on the border between Tagri and Efar.”

“We will not retreat until we bury the enemy and secure the freedom of Ethiopia. What we need to see is an Ethiopia that stands on its own, and we will die for it,” Abbey said.

Abby reported late Monday night that he was going to the Frontlines to direct the fight against rebel forces from the northern region of Tigray and their alliance.

The Tigraian forces have threatened to push into the capital Addis Ababa or to try to cut a corridor connecting the landlocked Ethiopia with the area’s largest port.

US. Special spokesman Jeffrey Feltman said this week that Tigrian forces were able to make progress south to the capital, but that the military had repulsed several attempts to cut the transport corridor on the eastern front.

The spread of this year-old conflict in the neighboring Afar and Amhara regions means that 9.4 million need food aid as a direct result of an ongoing conflict, the UN said. ‘S World Food Program reported Friday. More than 80% of those needed are behind the battalions, it added.

“The corridors in Tigray have been closed due to recent tiger offenses on Afar and Amhara, as well as severe disruptions in federal government clearance. Since mid-July, less than a third of the supplies required … have entered the area,” he said. Said the organization.

Reporting by Nairobi Newsroom; Edited by Alison Williams, Alex Richardson and Emelia Sithole-Matarise

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