I’m not familiar enough with Ethiopian politics, does this have something to do with Eritrea?
it is civil war. tplf is the tigray people’s liberation front the opposition party
I can’t read ethiopian so I don’t know what that tweet says. But the ethiopian government postponed the august elections which pissed off tplf and they held their own local elections in september. there’s also the renaissance dam that has pissed off eritrea and egypt toward tplf. The ethiopian PM won the nobel prize last year or the year before for not fighting eritrea, that’s about all I know but I am guessing that tweet says something like ethiopia and eritrea will fight tplf in the north
The Tigray state borders Eritrea, so it’s likely. Don’t know much about the region myself though.
My Knowledge of Ethiopian history goes like this.
- There was the Queen of Sheba who had a kid with Solomon
- At some point in the 4th century Aksum was one of the first countries to adopt Christianity officially
- Then like a thousand years later or something some guy overthrows the king and claims to be a descendent of the Queen and Solomon’s son and those people rule for a really long time.
- Now we are in the mid 20th century and this guy is emperor for a real long time and he manages to not be conquered by Italy and remain semi-autonomous, but then he gets overthrown by Marxist-Leninist in the 70’s thus ending the “Solomonic Dynasty”.
- The Communist Derg rules for awhile and it’s a cluster fuck and Eritrea wants independence and they collapse like alot of communist governments did in the late 80’s early 90’s.
- Then I am pretty sure there was a super long war between Ethiopia and Eritrea.
I believe so. The Tigray section split from the larger party at the time when Abiy made peace with Eritrea. Eritrea is plurality Tigray (though Eritreans have a civic nationalist identity not based on ethnicity), and unless I’m mistaken the Tigray party is more attached to irredentist claims on Eritrea, and didn’t like backing down from them.
