A government-led humanitarian truce has been challenged on numerous occasions by rebel fighters who keep occupying large parts of the Afar region. This is a welcome relief for the 5.2 million Ethiopians living in Tigray. Nevertheless, the international community should not lose sight over the plight of the millions of Ethiopians living in the Amhara and Afar regions, which now seem to have been forgotten. In their own accounts, the rebels have confessed to attacking military bases in the Tigray region initiating a defensive response from government forces. Meanwhile, the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) said it would have been seen as "an act of war anywhere in the world, and one that typically triggers a military response in the defense of any nations."

Source: Ethiopian News June 07, 2022 03:30 UTC