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Ethiopia has accused Eritrea of preparing for war against her in a collusion with an opposition group, in the last sign of escalating tensions between the two neighbors over control of the Red Sea.
Ethiopia’s accusation is contained in a letter sent by his Foreign Minister Gedion Timotevos to UN Chief Antonio Guterres, warning that the agreement has become “more apparent in the last few months.”
Eritrea has not yet commented on the letter, but his relationship with Ethiopia has become increasingly harnessed in recent months.
Ethiopia brings together support to regain access to the Red Sea, causing anxiety in Eritrea, as it took control of the coastline under independence in 1993.
If Gedion’s allegations are true, it means that Eritrea is waging a proxy war against Ethiop Prime Minister Abius Ahmed to prevent military invasion of Eritrea to seize the Red Sea ports.
Ethiopia and Eritrea fought for control of the Badm Border City from 1998 to 2000, causing the death of tens of thousands of people.
After Abi took office in 2018, he finished tensions by building a strong union with Eritrea President Isaas Afverki. However, the relations between them have fallen apart, with access to the Red Sea becoming a major flash.
In the letter observed by the AFP news agency, Gedion claims that Eritrea and a firm faction at the Tigra Liberation Front (TPLF) are “funding, mobilizing and targeting armed groups in the AMHARA region in Ethiopia, where police officers known as Fano Federal is fighting, fight
“The TPLF and the Eritrea Government is actively preparing to wage war against Ethiopia,” the letter quoted the letter.
The BBC Amharic contacted the Ethiopian Foreign Ministry to confirm the authenticity of the letter, but it has not yet responded. The letter is widespread on social media among the Ethiop government supporters.
The TPLF Fraction, led by Debretsion Gebremichael, controls the government in the Tigrai region in Ethiopia, which borders Eritrea.
He accuses Abius’ government of failing to fully implement the peace deal reached in 2022 to end the Tigrai conflict, and says another TPLF faction, led by Getchew Reda, is confronted with Adis Abba.
Eritrea fought on the side of the Ethiopian army in the conflict, but was not part of the deal and is now accused of creating an alliance with the debretsion faction.
At the same time, Ethiopia has been affected by an increasingly bruntal conflict in its Amhara region after Fano’s militias – earlier, allied themselves with the Abius government against TPLF – rejecting the moves to disarm them and stated that they were protecting the Ethnic Group of Amhara from government atrocities.
Fano seems to be expanding his agenda to download Abius’ government and perform more death operations.
Ethiopia’s Private Addis Standard reports that the Foreign Minister’s letter has accused Eritrea and TPLF Hardliners in support of Fano’s efforts to capture the city of Ushara in September.
TPLF commanders and fighters participated directly in the operation, the newspaper says.
The minister said Eritrea was trying to destabilize Ethiopia because he felt threatened by Addis Ababa’s candidacy to gain access to the Red Sea, the newspaper reports.
Since October 2023, Ethiopia, which has been assigned to renewed access to the Red Sea, arguing that it has been wrong in refusing control of Eritrea’s ports during its independence.
In Parliament of Ethiopia on Monday, President Taiee Azke Selassie identified the Red Sea and the Nile River as “great water resources that are essential to the existence of our country.”
This led to a sharp rebuke from Eritrea Yeman’s Minister of Information, who rejected rhetoric as “too screaming and pathetic to sell.”
He added that the “obsession” of the Ethiopian ruling party with the Red Sea and the Nile River is “a bizarre and stunning of all standards.”
