And it's not as if Executive Outcomes won't have any work. The latest flare-ups:
A. Ethiopia.
On 26 Nov, Nobel Peace Prizer winner Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed ordered the Armed Forces to launch a “final offensive” on Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), and the Tigray capital of Mekelle. Ahmed’s troops launched the initial offensive against the TPLF on 4 Nov.
Debretsion Gebremichael, the leader of the TPLF, said on Tuesday his people were “ready to die” defending their homeland.
The TPLF says it is defending its legitimate rights under Ethiopia’s devolved constitutional system.
Last-minute efforts by the African Union and the United Nations to defuse the crisis have failed. On 25 Nov, Ahmed rejected international “interference”, even though Eritrea and Somalia appear to have troops neck deep in Tigray against the TPLF. UAE is also involved supplying to and/or operating drones for Ethiopia.
Approximately 43,000 refugees have crossed into Sudan, but Ethiopian troops are preventing many others from fleeing.
So the claims that Eritrea has entered the fray and that Somalia has, too, on Eritrea's side, added to the allegations of atrocities committed by both sides, and you have another hot mess on the African continent.
