A year of armed conflict

Ethiopia imposes new restrictions on Tigray Crispin Adriaanse crispin.adriaanse@africannewsagency.com Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has implemented a new state of emergency following a year of armed conflict that’s been described by senior Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) official Getachew Reda as “carte blanche to jail or kill Tigrayans at will”. On November 2, the federal government of Ethiopia said “citizens whose ages are fit for military service and who are in possession of firearms can be ordered to take military training” as well as “to take orders for military missions”, Abiy’s countrywide state of emergency proclamation read. Other measures include deploying federal armed forces to any part of the country, closing any means of communication, imposing a curfew, detaining suspected conspirators without a warrant, banning the movement of citizens, and…