THE WAR in Ethiopia continued to rage even as Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed rejected growing international consensus for a dialogue and a halt to deadly fighting in the Tigray region. According to Ahmed, this is interference by the international community. He believes that Ethiopia will handle the conflict on its own even as a 72-hour surrender ultimatum runs out. Diplomats on Tuesday said UN Security Council members in a closed-door meeting expressed support for an African Union-led effort to deploy three high-level envoys to Ethiopia. Meanwhile, an Ethiopian news agency has said that more than 10,000 Tigrayan troops had been “destroyed” during the conflict which has now raged for over three-weeks. However, the news has not been confirmed by the Tigray People’s Liberation Front since phone and internet connections to Tigray are down and access to the area is strictly controlled.
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