(ANSA) - ADDIS ABABA, 04 NOV - Ethiopian deputies voted in favor of a state of emergency six months after the advance of the rebels in the direction of the capital, causing the alarm of the United States that fear a worsening of the humanitarian crisis in the country of the Horn of Africa. The civil war, in fact, which broke out a year ago, has reduced hundreds of thousands of people to starvation.
The conflict, which began with a military offensive in northern Ethiopia against the local government Popular Front for the Liberation of Tigray (TPLF) party by decision of the Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed - Nobel Peace Prize winner in 2019 - then extended to the neighboring regions of Afar and the Amhara, where the city of Kemissie, recently conquered by the TPLF and located about 400 kilometers north of the capital, is located.
Tplf spokesman Getachew Reda spoke of the alliance with the Oromo Liberation Army (Ola), while a senior official of USAID, the United States agency for international development, raised the alarm on the positive repercussions of this situation for the already serious problems of Ethiopia.
"We can only assume that any march to AddisAbeb could expand displacement, needs and suffering for the Ethiopian people," the official told AFP.
"It will certainly increase the need for humanitarian assistance, complicating the possibility of providing it," he added.
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