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ADDIS ABABA, Nov 4 — A rebel march on Ethiopia’s capital would worsen the country’s severe humanitarian crisis, already fanned by “egregious” government obstruction, a senior US official told AFP today. The warning came after the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) rebel group...

ADDIS ABABA, Nov 4 — A rebel march on Ethiopia’s capital would worsen the country’s severe humanitarian crisis, already fanned by “egregious” government obstruction, a senior US official told AFP today.

“We can only assume that any march towards Addis would spread increased displacement, increased need and increased suffering for the Ethiopian people,” said the senior official from Washington’s humanitarian arm USAID. The US embassy announced today it was authorising the voluntary departure of most staff and their families, although no one is obligated to leave at this stage.

Washington has been among the most vocal critics of Ethiopia’s conduct of the year-long war in the country’s north.Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed sent troops into Tigray in November 2020 to topple the TPLF, which dominated national politics before he took office in 2018.

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