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Leadership

militia that is intent on destroying
the nation of Ethiopia. This crucial
failure, to withhold support from
the government of Prime Minister
Abiy, is contributing to Ethiopia’s
turmoil today.

U.S.-Ethiopia Today

Is the U.S. lack of support for Prime
Minister Abiy, encouraging the TDF
to continue fighting? Is the U.S.
today still demanding reconciliation
with the insurrectionists who have
announced their intention to march
on Addis Ababa, the capital? Will
the TDF military campaigns against
other regions spark a greater war?
If the conflict spreads in Ethiopia,
will the U.S. accept responsibility for
their encouragement of the TDF?

Who benefits if Ethiopia is torn
apart by war? As the case of Libya
has demonstrated; not Africans. If
Ethiopia was to be torn apart in
The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam-GERD, upper right,
will drive economic development in East Africa with its inter-ethnic warfare, tens of millions
6,200 megawatts of electrical power. of Africans, not just Ethiopians,
would suffer extreme hardship.

cy, rule of law and human rights.” Blinken, and the Congress have It is not too late for the Biden
never acknowledged Ethiopia’s administration to correct its poli-
There is often a coincidence of declaration that the TPLF/TDF is a cy towards Ethiopia, before more
action and interests between those terrorist organization. Instead, they Africans suffer from the spread of
insisting on implementing their “lib- continued to insist on reconciliation. ethno-nationalist war.
eral” doctrine, and the objectives of Thus, establishing an equivalency
the political financial elites. between a duly constituted gov-
ernment and a rebel insurrectionist
Almost nine months after Prime
Minister Abiy chose to defend his Samantha Power, then U.N. Ambassador under President Obama, and now
nation, the TPLF, now been re- head of USAID under President Biden. (courtesy of axios.com)
branded the Tigray Defense Forces
(TDF), continues their violent at-
tacks on the state of Ethiopia. After
the June 28, unilateral declaration
of a ceasefire by the government
of Ethiopia, the TDF has launched
offensive military deployments
against two neighboring regions;
Afar and Amhara. Not surprising-
ly, there have been no statements
of condemnation of TDF by the
Biden administration or Congress.

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