On the evening of 28th November, with the world distracted by the coronavirus pandemic, Abiy Ahmed declared victory in a war that few outside of the Horn of Africa even knew was happening. The Ethiopian prime minister claimed that government troops had established “full control” of Mekelle, capital of Tigray, the restive northern Ethiopian province which has a population of seven million. His military had undertaken a four-week operation against the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), a quasi-military political party that effectively controlled Ethiopian politics for over 25 years until 2018. Ahmed declared that the conflict had been “successfully concluded”.
However, Ahmed’s claims of victory were hard to verify. Phone and internet services in Tigray had been severed 24 days earlier, when Ahmed ordered the military campaign, and journalists, humanitarian organisations and independent investigators had been kept out of the region. “It was virtually impossible to g
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