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November 25, 2020

Ethiopia Warns of Imminent Attack in Tigray Capital as Rights Group Says Tigray Attack Killed 600+ Civilians
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Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in
2019, is rejecting international calls to halt a planned attack on the
northern Ethiopian city of Mekelle, the capital of the semiautonomous
region of Tigray. Ahmed has threatened to launch the attack today if the
Tigray People's Liberation Front did not agree to surrender.

Meanwhile, the government-backed Ethiopian Human Rights Commission is
accusing a youth group in Tigray of killing at least 600 civilians near
the Sudanese border earlier this month. The report has not been
independently verified.


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