Johannesburg, South Africa (CNN) When Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed of Ethiopia received the Nobel Peace Prize last year, he was lauded as a regional peacemaker. Now, he is being asked to pull his own country back from the brink of civil war. On Thursday, Ethiopia's military said it was at "war" with the ruling party of the country's northern Tigray region. This war is shameful, it is senseless," Berhanu Jula, the deputy army chief, told reporters, the AFP news agency reported. We are deeply concerned by reports that the Tigray People's Liberation Front carried out attacks on Ethiopian National Defense Force bases in Ethiopia's Tigray region.

Source: CNN November 05, 2020 21:56 UTC