Security and International relations analyst Adib Saani has described Ethiopia as a country in crisis over its inability to stop rebel forces from advancing into the capital and other providence.
“Based on the information I gathered, the rebels are about 200 km away from the capital which is Addis Ababa and this is worrying and posing a bigger threat to the country”.
According to him Ethiopia is diversed when it comes to ethnic groups which he said has not been able to bring the various ethnic groups under one umbrella as a strong cohesive force but rather has resulted in divisions which have culminated into what we see today.
The Ethiopian officials on Tuesday November 2, 2021 asked residents in Addis Ababa to register their firearms and prepare to protect their neighborhoods, as fighting raged north of the capital between government and rebel forces.
The Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) has in recent days claimed control of two key cities about 400 kilometers (250 miles) from Addis Ababa and has not ruled out marching on the capital.
Speaking to Mynewsafric.com correspondent Valentina Larteley Lawson, Adib indicated that happenings in Ethiopia did not only pose a security challenge to the East African sub region but to the whole African continent.
He expressed worry that vulnerable groups like women, children, disabled and the aged are those that suffers most in such situations.
“These are the women and children who have been placed at camps without food and potable water, poor sanitation which is very disturbing”.
He lamented that, “because of the kindliness nature of the African society, what affects any country has implications on its neighboring countries, so for example whatever happens in Burkina Faso has implications on Ghana and vice versa”.
Commenting on any possibility of an AU intervention, Adib complained that, “the AU seems to be handicapped on this occasion, and I don’t think any country will be ready to send their troops there for peace keeping at the moment, so rather they are depending on the UN”.
