We all were taught that World War I, which claimed 16 million people in four years, began in 1914 after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo. The Tripartite Treaty paved the way for the participants’ cooperation against Germany — a decade preceding World War I. While the Germans and the Ottomans supported Lij Iyassu, the uncrowned emperor from 1913 to 1916, the opposing faction (Great Britain, France, and Italy) conspired against him. [11] A century later, with new actors at play, the region is facilitating confrontations similar to those that culminated in World War I. [10] Shiferaw Bekele et al., eds., The First World War from Tripoli to Addis Ababa (1911-1924) (Addis Ababa: Centre français des études éthiopiennes, 2018).

Source: Ethiopian News March 13, 2021 09:00 UTC