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According to preliminary reports, thousands of Ethiopians died and nearly a million had to leave their homes and flee to neighbouring countries due to a conflict that hit the African country last month.<\/p>\n
The Ethiopian government has announced it will pay a 10 million birr ($260,000) reward for information on the whereabouts of fugitive Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) leaders. The news was announced on state-run broadcaster EBC and later confirmed by the government’s crisis task force on Twitter.<\/p>\n
TPLF officers have allegedly been hiding in the mountains since Mekelle, the capital of the region, was captured by federal forces.<\/p>\n
Tensions in Ethiopia mounted long before a November offensive, after the TPLF quit Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s governing coalition in 2019. This year, the local authorities refused to follow a federal order to postpone elections amid the coronavirus pandemic. The region held the vote, but the results were never recognised by Addis Ababa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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