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AfricaPress-eritrea:<\/strong>\u00a0The United States on Monday imposed new sanctions over Ethiopia\u2019s\u00a0deadly Tigray conflict\u00a0as hundreds of thousands of people face famine conditions under a government blockade the U.S. has called a \u201csiege\u201d and fighting spreads into other parts of the country.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The Treasury Department in a statement said the chief of staff of the defense forces of neighboring Eritrea, Filipos Woldeyohannes, was sanctioned under the Global Magnitsky Human Rights Accountability Act for leading an entity accused of \u201cdespicable acts\u201d including massacres, widespread sexual assault and the executions of boys. The statement again calls on Eritrea to remove\u00a0its soldiers\u00a0from Ethiopia\u2019s Tigray region permanently.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n

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The nine-month war has killed thousands of people and left observers shocked as Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, teamed up with former enemy Eritrea to wage war on the Tigray forces, with civilians not spared.<\/p>\n

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Scores of witnesses have described to The Associated Press abuses such as gang-rapes, the destruction of health centers, the burning of crops and forced expulsions. Eritreans were often accused of some of the worst abuses. Ethiopia\u2019s government denied their presence in Tigray for months.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThe (Eritrean Defense Forces) have purposely shot civilians in the street and carried out systematic house-to-house searches, executing men and boys, and have forcibly evicted Tigrayan families from their residences and taken over their houses and property,\u201d the new U.S. statement said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Eritrea\u2019s foreign ministry in a statement called the accusations unacceptable and challenged the U.S. to \u201cbring the case to an independent adjudication if it indeed has facts to prove its false allegations.\u201d Eritrea shares a border with the Tigray region and is has been described by human rights groups as one of the world\u2019s most repressive nations.<\/p>\n

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The U.S. earlier this year signaled it was also losing patience with Ethiopia, Africa\u2019s second-most populous country, suspending millions of dollars in aid to a key security ally in the Horn of Africa and imposing visa restrictions on unnamed Ethiopians involved in the war.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The Tigray forces have since retaken much of the Tigray region of 6 million people, forcing Ethiopian and Eritrean soldiers to retreat and regroup. But \u201cthe United States is concerned that large numbers of (Eritrean Defense Forces) have re-entered Ethiopia, after withdrawing in June,\u201d Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The Tigray forces have now crossed into the Amhara and Afar regions, ignoring calls from the U.S. and United Nations to withdraw and vowing to press as far as the capital, Addis Ababa, to end the hostilities. Hundreds of thousands of people in Amhara and Afar have fled their advance, some alleging abuses against civilians.<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile the Ethiopian government has urged all capable citizens to war, and it has again cut off the Tigray region, with phone, internet and banking services down and truckloads of humanitarian aid almost at a standstill. Just 7% of the needed aid is reaching the region and food aid inside Tigray has now run out, the U.S. Agency for International Development said last week.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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On the defensive, Ethiopia\u2019s government has rejected international \u201cmeddling\u201d and accused humanitarian groups of arming or otherwise supporting the Tigray forces.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The U.S. sanctions represent new pressure to stop the fighting, allow unrestricted access to Tigray and engage in dialogue. But Ethiopia\u2019s government has declared the Tigray leadership, who long dominated the country\u2019s government before Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed came to power and sidelined them, a terrorist group.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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And the Tigray forces have laid out several conditions for talks, including the resumption of basic services to the region.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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