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Renaud Girard: “Ethiopia, a new Syria?”

2021-07-06T15:04:48.763Z


CHRONICLE - The great powers should encourage the departure from power of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed who, driven by an imperial dream of centralization, recklessly embarked on a punitive war against Tigray.


The UN, the African Union and the great powers counting in Africa (United States, China, France, Russia) will they soon have to manage the dramatic consequences of a civil war affecting one of the largest countries of the continent? black?

This war has already started, in November 2020, in northern Ethiopia, a country of 112 million inhabitants.

Everything must be done so that it does not extend to the whole of the territory, and that it does not spill over into the other countries of the Horn of Africa.

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We must avoid relapsing into a crisis comparable to the one which once destroyed Syria.

In this country of 17 million inhabitants - of course very different in history and geography from Ethiopia - the great powers failed, in 2011-2012, to prevent the popular uprising inherited from the spring Arab (which they had by no means anticipated) turns into an extremely bloody civil war.

At the UN, in February 2012, the western club of P-3 (America, France,

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Source: lefigaro

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