{"id":27479,"date":"2021-11-23T10:48:37","date_gmt":"2021-11-23T07:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=27479"},"modified":"2021-11-23T12:18:49","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T09:18:49","slug":"ethiopia-pm-ready-to-lead-troops-from-the-war-front","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2021\/11\/23\/ethiopia-pm-ready-to-lead-troops-from-the-war-front\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia PM Ready To Lead Troops From The War Front"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ethiopia\u2019s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed says he will now lead his troops \u201cfrom the battle front\u201d as the year-long conflict moves closer to the capital, Addis Ababa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Starting tomorrow, I will mobilise to the front to lead the defence forces,&#8221; Mr Abiy, said in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AbiyAhmedAli\/status\/1462858774633332736?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a statement posted on Twitter late on Monday.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Those who want to be among the Ethiopian children, who will be hailed by history, rise up for your country today. Let&#8217;s meet at the front,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It came after the ruling Prosperity Party&#8217;s executive committee met on Monday to discuss the war. The defence minister told local media after the meeting that security forces would be embarking on a \u201cdifferent action\u201d over the conflict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Tigray People\u2019s Liberation Front (TPLF) has dismissed Mr Abiy\u2019s statement.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/reda_getachew\/status\/1462883978407550980?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Its spokesman, Getachew Reda, said<\/a>&nbsp;that \u201cour forces won\u2019t relent on their inexorable advance towards bringing [Abiy\u2019s] chokehold on our people to an end\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since last November, the government and rebel forces have been engaged in a war that started in Tigray and spread into neighbouring Amhara and Afar regions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Special envoys from the African Union and the US have been trying to broker a ceasefire in recent days but there has been little progress so far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The conflict has killed thousands of people, forced millions from their homes and hundreds of thousands others are facing famine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>BBC News Africa <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia\u2019s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed says he will now lead his troops \u201cfrom the battle front\u201d as the year-long conflict moves closer to the capital, Addis Ababa. &#8220;Starting tomorrow, I will mobilise to the front to lead the defence forces,&#8221; Mr Abiy, said in&nbsp;a statement posted on Twitter late on Monday. &#8220;Those who want to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":27481,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[7098,31],"class_list":["post-27479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","tag-abiy-ahmed","tag-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27479"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27486,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27479\/revisions\/27486"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}