Ethiopia Has Reported An Attack By Eritrea
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Addis Ababa reports a "full-scale invasion" of Asmara.
Ethiopia accused Eritrea of a “full-scale invasion” and stated that it was forced to defend itself. This was reported on October 9 by Reuters on October 9, citing a letter from Ethiopian Foreign Minister Gideon Timoteos to the UN.
Back on October 1, Ethiopia severed diplomatic relations with Eritrea and gave its diplomats 48 hours to leave the country. As reported by The Wall Street Journal, this occurred a few hours after drone attacks on two defense facilities in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, including the armed forces headquarters.
Ethiopian authorities accused Eritrea of arming and supporting rebels in Tigray. Even then, the severing of diplomatic relations raised fears that the internal conflict in Ethiopia could escalate into a full-scale war between the two countries.
Now, according to the minister, Eritrean troops have advanced up to 60 km into Ethiopian territory. The letter was sent to members of the UN Security Council.
“This is a flagrant act of aggression that gives Ethiopia grounds to exercise its inalienable right to self-defense,” the document states.
Witnesses told Reuters that they had seen Eritrean soldiers in northern Ethiopia this week. A few days earlier, the two countries had severed diplomatic relations.
Eritrea’s Minister of Information Yemane Gebremeskel responded by accusing Ethiopia of effectively waging an “unprovoked war of aggression” against his country for more than three years. According to him, Addis Ababa is using the current conflict to seize the Eritrean port of Assab and regain access to the Red Sea.
He did not comment in his statement on the presence of Eritrean troops in Ethiopia. Earlier, Gebremeskel had called reports of an invasion part of Ethiopia’s plan to justify the war.
According to ACLED, an organization that tracks armed conflicts, on October 7–8, Eritrean forces retreating from positions near the city of Adigrat in the Tigray region came under drone strikes. These strikes may have been carried out by the Ethiopian military. A resident of Adigrat said that during the night and on the morning of October 9, he heard repeated explosions several kilometers from the city.
Ethiopian government forces have continued to advance into Tigray in recent days. Ethiopian Airlines announced that it will resume flights to the regional capital, Mekelle, on October 11.
Reuters notes that Ethiopia lost its access to the sea after Eritrea gained independence in 1993. Addis Ababa calls the restoration of its access to the sea a matter of survival, but has stated that it seeks to achieve this through peaceful means and dialogue.
In 2018, the countries signed a peace agreement, for which Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed received the Nobel Peace Prize. During the war in Tigray from 2020 to 2022, Eritrea supported the Ethiopian government, but relations deteriorated again at the end of the conflict.
Ethiopia now accuses Eritrea of supporting a rebel alliance that has been fighting federal troops in the Tigray, Amhara, and Afar regions since September 23. Eritrea denies this. According to Reuters, the current fighting marks the most significant escalation of violence since the war in Tigray, which claimed hundreds of thousands of lives.
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