ADDIS ABABA: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived late Tuesday (Mar 14) in Ethiopia on a bid to support the peace process after a brutal two-year civil war, and renew ties with a longtime ally. Blinken's trip to Africa's second most populous nation comes as part of a push by President Joe Biden's a
ADDIS ABABA: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived late Tuesday in Ethiopia on a bid to support the peace process after a brutal two-year civil war, and renew ties with a longtime ally.
Blinken is expected to meet Wednesday in Addis Ababa with Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed - a Nobel Peace Prize winner once seen as at the vanguard of a new generation of forward-looking African leaders, but who quickly turned into a near pariah for Washington over the war. Molly Phee, the top US diplomat for Africa, said that Blinken's visit would aim to"help consolidate that peace" but cautioned that the US-Ethiopian relationship was not ready to go"back to normal".
Sarah Yager, Washington director at Human Rights Watch, said that Blinken's visit was"a crucial opportunity to put the warring parties on notice that the US will press for all sides to be held accountable for their crimes". The United States has estimated that the two-year conflict has claimed 500,000 lives - higher than the death toll in Russia's invasion of Ukraine which has drawn far more global attention.
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