NAIROBI, Kenya — Ethiopia’s Nobel Peace Prize-winning prime minister says he will lead his country’s army “from the battlefront” beginning today, a dramatic new step in a devastating yearlong war. “This is a time when leading a country with martyrdom is needed,” Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said in a statement posted on social media Monday night. With rival Tigray forces moving closer to the capital of Addis Ababa, his government declared a state of emergency earlier this month. The statement by the prime minister, a former soldier, did not say where exactly he will go today. “Let’s meet at the battlefront,” the 45-year-old prime minister said.

Source: Ethiopian News November 23, 2021 06:24 UTC