Ethiopia: Ethiopia threatens to deploy army after Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) rebels advance
Ethiopia warned Friday it could deploy its “entire defensive capability” after advances by Tigrayan rebels into neighbouring regions.
The government “is being pushed to mobilise and deploy the entire defensive capability of the state if its humanitarian overtures for a peaceful resolution of the conflict remain unreciprocated,” the foreign ministry said in a statement.
“The action of the irresponsible group is testing the federal government’s patience and pushing it to change its defensive mood which has been taken for the sake of the unilateral humanitarian ceasefire.”
Earlier Friday, the spokesman for the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) rebuffed calls to withdraw from the neighbouring Afar and Amhara regions.