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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who is on a visit to Africa and was in Ethiopia recently, urged the East African country to ensure accountability over the brutal Tigray conflict. He voiced guarded optimism at preserving peace. Blinken is on a trip that has set the objective of easing a wartime rift between the long – time allies, the US and Ethiopia
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who is on a visit to Africa and was in Ethiopia recently, urged the East African country to ensure accountability over the brutal Tigray conflict. He voiced guarded optimism at preserving peace. Blinken is on a trip that has set the objective of easing a wartime rift between the long-time allies, the US and Ethiopia.
On the latest trip, Blinken offered US$331 million as new humanitarian aid to Ethiopia. He said that greater economic relations with Ethiopia depended on its commitment to both reconciliation and accountability over the war, which the United States estimates has cost about 500,000 lives.
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The US secretary of state met Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed for more than an hour. Incidentally, Ahmed was angered during the war after Blinken alleged that crimes against humanity had been committed. Blinken also met representatives of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) and said that both sides voiced commitments to implementing the November 2 peace accord brokered in South Africa by the African Union, with US support. He also held talks with human rights groups and said they had reported a very significant drop in human rights violations and abuses in Tigray since the agreement.
