{"id":967,"date":"2020-12-22T19:46:29","date_gmt":"2020-12-22T19:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/ethiopia\/?p=967"},"modified":"2020-12-22T19:46:29","modified_gmt":"2020-12-22T19:46:29","slug":"ethiopia-acted-legitimately-in-tigray-auc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ethiopia\/all-news\/ethiopia-acted-legitimately-in-tigray-auc","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia Acted Legitimately in Tigray: AUC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/ethiopia\">Ethiopia<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Addis Ababa December 22\/2020 (ENA) Ethiopia took \u201clegitimate\u201d military action in its Tigray region to preserve the country\u2019s unity and stability, the Chairperson of the African Union Commission (AUC) said.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking after the conclusion of a meeting of regional leaders on Sunday evening, AUC Chairperson Moussa Faki Mahamat said Ethiopia\u2019s military campaign in its Tigray Region was \u201clegitimate for all states.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The humanitarian suffering of the conflict is cause for concern, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt cannot be denied, however, that the crisis in Tigray has provoked large scale displacement \u2026 Particular attention should be paid to refugees and displaced people,\u201d he said in a tweet.<\/p>\n<p>He was speaking following a meeting of the Inter-governmental Authority on Development (IGAD), which brought together the leaders of Ethiopia, Kenya, Djibouti and Sudan, as well as officials from other neighboring countries.<\/p>\n<p>It is to be recalled that Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed thanked the regional leaders for \u201cunderstanding and acknowledging our law enforcement measures as legal and legitimate\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In early November, the Federal Government has conducted a law enforcement operation in Tigray region following an attack orchestrated by the TPLF junta on Ethiopian National Defense Force Northern Command.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Ethiopia. Addis Ababa December 22\/2020 (ENA) Ethiopia took \u201clegitimate\u201d military action in its Tigray region to preserve the country\u2019s unity and stability, the Chairperson of the African Union Commission (AUC) said. Speaking after the conclusion of a meeting of regional leaders on Sunday evening, AUC Chairperson Moussa Faki Mahamat said Ethiopia\u2019s military campaign [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,10],"tags":[233,235],"class_list":["post-967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-homepage-english","category-parties","tag-africa-press","tag-ethiopia"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ethiopia Acted Legitimately in Tigray: AUC - Ethiopia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ethiopia\/all-news\/ethiopia-acted-legitimately-in-tigray-auc\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ethiopia Acted Legitimately in Tigray: AUC\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Ethiopia. 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