![]() The emergency proclamation gives sweeping powers to a government which has already carried out mass arrests of Tigrayans and other critics. The African Union, headquartered in Addis Ababa, is increasingly concerned, but appears to be making equally little headway Tigrayans say it has favoured the federal government. The US has removed Ethiopia from a key trade programme and its special envoy to the Horn of Africa, Jeffrey Feltman, has said it will swiftly go further if there is no move to de-escalate – but acknowledged that such moves “don’t seem anywhere near”. While leaders refuse to talk, civilians face tragedy. But emboldened Tigrayan commanders now seem less willing than ever to pause, while Mr Abiy seems to believe that a weak hand means he must press on. Mr Abiy could offer to restore vital services such as telecommunications and electricity to Tigray and do the utmost to facilitate aid in exchange for a halt in the Tigrayan advance. The only way out of this disaster is through negotiation. His opponents believe his power grab sparked the war, and many Tigrayans have also come to see the conflict as a matter of survival. They point out that the prime minister won by a landslide in this year’s elections (albeit without polls in some regions). Many in Ethiopia now fear that the TPLF is set on regaining the political dominance it held for decades before Mr Abiy’s rise. The conflict is growing both broader and more entrenched. ![]() On Friday, eight anti-government factions vowed to ally with the TPLF – though the most significant element, the Oromo Liberation Army, already fights alongside it. They could also seek to take the Djibouti corridor, the main trade artery, allowing them to reroute aid to Tigray, where desperate food shortages persist – and potentially to hit supplies to the capital. Though Mr Abiy has sought to buy more weapons and enlist more recruits, Tigrayan forces have broken through the blockade of their region and seized towns to the south, towards Addis Ababa. A country already in dire straits is on the brink of catastrophe, Amnesty International warned on Friday.īolstered by Eritrean troops, federal forces briefly captured Tigray’s capital, but were forced out this summer. The Nobel peace prize laureate urged ordinary citizens to take up weapons and told them that “dying for Ethiopia is a duty all of us”. Last week, the prime minister, Abiy Ahmed, declared a state of emergency as the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) suggested its soldiers might advance towards the capital. Atrocities have been committed by all parties, including massacres of civilians, extensive sexual violence and the use of food as a weapon. Thousands of Ethiopians have died and millions have been forced from their homes. In fact, one year on, the conflict continues to escalate. Within weeks of launching his assault on the region of Tigray last November – saying its authorities had attacked a military camp – the Ethiopian prime minister announced that the operation had been completed. These include Bisha, a polymetallic mine operated by Nevsun Resources (TSX: NSU), the Harvest and Adyabo projects, being advanced by East Africa Metals (TSX-V:EAM), and the Asmara project being advanced by Sichuan Road & Bridge Mining Investment Corp.T hat wars are easy to begin and hard to end is a commonplace, but one which ambitious leaders still forget. Poulton also said that besides this field programme, the company is planning to complete a multi-spectral remote sensing analysis of the Daro licence using Sentinel satellite data.ĭaro is situated within the Neo-Proterozoic Nakfa Terrane, at a junction between two major tectonic blocks and comprises a series of metasedimentary and metavolcanic rocks, affected by thrusting and intrusion of the Rama granite.Īccording to Altus, the Nakfa Terrane hosts a number of significant VMS base metal and gold deposits and mines. At Teklil we have mapped copper oxide mineralisation and discontinuous gossanous outcrop for over 900m in strike length,” Altus CEO, Steven Poulton, said in the brief. The prospect is located approximately 3km south of our existing Teklil prospect. “Geological mapping and stream sampling indicate the potential strike length of the Simret prospect is approximately 2.8km and 0.5km in width. ![]() ![]() This prospect was discovered following a licence-wide stream sediment sampling programme covering 320km2, which was undertaken earlier this year. ![]()
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