WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa Jeffrey Feltman said on Tuesday that “massive progress” toward getting all parties to Ethiopia’s conflict into negotiations for a ceasefire is at risk of being outpaced by an “alarming” military escalation.
Feltman briefed reporters in Washington after returning on Monday from Ethiopia, where he met Prime Minster Abiy Ahmed and discussed a potential diplomatic solution to the conflict.
But both Abiy and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front seem to believe they are on the cusp of military victory, Feltman said, expressing concern that developments on the ground threaten Ethiopia’s overall stability and unity.
(Reporting by Daphne Psaledakis and Simon Lewis)
