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Ethiopia Declares Emergency After Attack on Federal Military Base

Simon Marks

   ADDIS ABABA - Ethiopia's government has ordered the army into the
   Tigray region and declared a six-month state of emergency after the
   prime minister accused the Tigray government of attacking a federal
   military base.

   Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said military operations began in the
   northern Tigray area on Wednesday morning, after he accused the
   region's ruling Tigray People's Liberation Front of orchestrating a
   raid on a strategic military base.

   However, government officials have been tight-lipped about the size or
   the goal of the operation, and whether there have been any casualties
   or arrests of TPLF officials. Internet and telephone lines were shut
   down in Tigray as of late Wednesday afternoon.

   Relations between Tigray and Abiy's government have been fraught since
   he took office in 2018 and sidelined the TPLF, which ruled the
   government in a coalition for nearly three decades.

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