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Tensions with Tigray escalated in recent months after the region went ahead with its own local elections despite all polls being suspended because of the coronavirus pandemic.
On October 7, Ethiopian lawmakers voted to withhold budget support from Tigray, a move one Tigrayan official said was “tantamount to a declaration of war.”
Most of Ethiopia’s military equipment is in Tigray because of a long-running war against neighbouring Eritrea that ended in 2018 when the countries signed a peace deal. Now, Abiy, who won the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize for his reform efforts in Ethiopia and peace…
