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MPs Approve State of Emergency After Ethiopia Launches Military Operation in
Tigray

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   Ethiopia's parliament on Thursday validated a six-month state of
   emergency in the rebellious northern Tigray region, where the federal
   government has launched a military campaign despite international pleas
   for negotiation to avoid a civil war.

   The state of emergency was announced Wednesday by cabinet ministers,
   hours after Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed ordered troops into Tigray in
   response to a deadly attack on a federal military base in the regional
   capital, Mekele. Abiy's administration blames the Tigray People's
   Liberation Front (TPLF), which controls the regional government, for
   authorizing the attack.

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