João Lourenço and President of Ethiopia addressed the peace and security situation in the country

Sahle-Work Zewde who arrived in Luanda on Thursday night, and met this Friday at the Presidential Palace with the head of State, leaving the country in the late morning.

According to a note from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in brief statements to the press at the international airport, the Ethiopian President said that the visit was essentially focused on political and diplomatic efforts on the crisis in that African country, marked by clashes between the military the rebel forces of the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) and the Ethiopian regular army.

Today, the United Nations affirmed that all parties involved in the conflict in Ethiopia continue the practices of abuse, and warned of the threat of a scenario of "general violence" with serious consequences for the region.

In response, Ethiopia accused the United Nations Human Rights Council, meeting in Geneva, of "neocolonialism", precisely because it convened this special session to address the issue of rights violations in the country, ravaged by a war that has raged since the beginning of November 2020.

War broke out on November 4, 2020, when Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed sent the federal army to Tigray with a mission to forcibly withdraw state authorities from the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF, for its acronym in English) who had been challenging the authority of Addis Ababa for many months.

The specific pretext for the invasion was an alleged attack by state forces on a federal military base in Tigray, and the operation was initially characterized by Addis Ababa as a police mission, aimed at restoring constitutional order and bringing those responsible to justice. for his continued disturbance.

Abiy Ahmed declared victory three weeks after the invasion, when the federal army captured the state capital, Mekele. By June of this year, however, the forces assigned to the TPLF had already retaken most of the territory of the state of Tigray, and continued the offensive in the neighboring states of Amhara and Afar.

The conflict in Ethiopia has left several thousand people dead and more than two million displaced, leaving hundreds of thousands of Ethiopians in near-starvation conditions, according to the UN.