Ethiopia PM claims war gains, urges rebels to 'surrender'Abiy, a former lieutenant-colonel in the military, announced last week that he would head to the battlefieldADDIS ABABA - Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on Tuesday urged Tigrayan rebels to surrender, claiming government forces were nearing victory just one week after he vowed to lead military operations at the front. "It should surrender today to the Ethiopian National Defence Force, to the special forces, to the militias and to the people." On Sunday, state media claimed the army controlled the lowland Afar town of Chifra, and Abiy said Tuesday such gains would be replicated to the west, in Amhara region. We scored an unthinkable victory with the eastern command in one day... Now in the west we will repeat this victory," he said. But a TPLF spokesman on Monday dismissed Abiy's deployment as a "circus" involving "farcical war games."

Source: Ethiopian News November 30, 2021 19:45 UTC