Ethiopia denies talks on conflict imminent‘PEACE AND STABILITY’: While the African Union plans to send an envoy to attempt to end hostilities, more than 30,000 have already fled to SudanReuters, NAIROBI and ADDIS ABABAEthiopia yesterday denied that talks on the growing conflict in its northern Tigray region were imminent, just hours after three African former presidents were named to help mediate the two-week-old crisis. An Ethiopian woman who fled war in the Tigray region and a child wait at the Fashaga camp on the Sudan-Ethiopia border in Sudan’s Al-Qadarif state on Friday. On Friday, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres told reporters that Ethiopia was not interested in external mediation. “Until now, there has not been acceptance by the Ethiopian authorities of any form of external mediation,” he said. The government has appointed an interim government to run Tigray when troops take Mekelle.

Source: Ethiopian News November 21, 2020 15:56 UTC