{"id":207450,"date":"2021-11-05T08:01:56","date_gmt":"2021-11-05T06:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/press\/the-urgent-need-to-end-the-conflict-in-ethiopia?lang=en"},"modified":"2021-11-05T08:01:56","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T06:01:56","slug":"the-urgent-need-to-end-the-conflict-in-ethiopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/the-urgent-need-to-end-the-conflict-in-ethiopia\/","title":{"rendered":"The Urgent Need to End the Conflict in Ethiopia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/large\/0ce0ebdee6af2f0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/large\/0ce0ebdee6af2f0\" alt=\"U.S. Department of State\" style=\"max-width:500px\" \/><\/a><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/download\/0ce0ebdee6af2f0\">Download logo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As the conflict in Ethiopia marks a full year, Ethiopian leaders &ndash; both inside and outside government and from across the country &ndash; face an urgent need to act immediately and alleviate the suffering of the Ethiopian people.&nbsp; The United States reiterates our deep concern about the risk of intercommunal violence aggravated by bellicose rhetoric on all sides of the conflict, especially on social media.&nbsp; Inflammatory language fuels the flames of this conflict, pushing a peaceful resolution ever further away.&nbsp; We are also concerned about reports of arbitrary detentions based on ethnicity in Addis Ababa.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>With the safety and security of millions in the balance, and more than 900,000 facing conflict-induced famine-like conditions, we prevail upon all forces to lay down their arms and open dialogue to maintain the unity and integrity of the Ethiopian state.&nbsp; We call on the Government of Ethiopia to halt its military campaign, including air strikes in population centers in Tigray and mobilization of ethnic militias.&nbsp; We call on the Government of Eritrea to remove its troop from Ethiopia.&nbsp; We call on the forces of the Tigray People&rsquo;s Liberation Front (TPLF) and the Oromo Liberation Army (OLA) to immediately stop the current advance towards Addis Ababa.&nbsp; All parties must also allow and facilitate humanitarian access so that life-saving assistance can reach people in need.&nbsp; We urge all parties to open ceasefire negotiations without preconditions to find a sustainable path towards peace.&nbsp; The international community stands ready to assist the Ethiopian people to end this conflict now.<\/p>\n<p><i>Distributed by APO Group on behalf of U.S. Department of State.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/\">Source: Africa Newsroom &#8211; APO<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Download logo As the conflict in Ethiopia marks a full year, Ethiopian leaders &ndash; both inside and outside government and from across the country &ndash; face an urgent need to act immediately and alleviate the suffering of the Ethiopian people.&nbsp; The United States reiterates our deep concern about the risk of intercommunal violence aggravated by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":207451,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4584],"tags":[4585],"class_list":{"0":"post-207450","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-africa-news-2","8":"tag-apo","9":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/the-urgent-need-to-end-the-conflict-in-ethiopia.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}