On Wednesday, Ethiopia expelled four of six Irish diplomats from the country because of Ireland’s stance on the conflict, said the Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney. On Tuesday, Feltman said nascent progress risked being overshadowed by military developments. In 1998, Gebrselassie shattered both the 5000m and 10,000m world records just days apart from each other, first with a win in Hengelo, Netherlands in a time of 26:22, breaking Tergat’s then. On Tuesday, the US special envoy for the Horn of Africa, Jeffrey Feltman, said the Ethiopian military and regional militias had held back Tigrayan attempts to cut the corridor, but Tigrayan forces had been able to move south towards the Addis Ababa.Įthiopia’s military spokesperson did not respond to requests for comment.Įthiopian police have trained about 147,000 civilians in the capital to form neighbourhood defence groups and help detect possible infiltrators, police said.įeltman, along with the former Nigerian president turned African Union envoy Olusegun Obasanjo, has been trying to broker a ceasefire between the two sides.
They have also been fighting to try to cut a transport corridor linking landlocked Ethiopia with the region’s main port in Djibouti. Last month Tigrayan forces and their allies threatened to march on Addis Ababa. EST, Fri NovemQ & A with Haile Gebrselassie Next Article in Technology » (CNN) - Haile Gebrselassie talks to CNN about his childhood, his family, his country and. 2 min By Ali Asgar Nalwala 23 September 2022 02:18 GMT-7 (Picture by Delhi Half Marathon 2022) Former Ethiopian long-distance runner Haile Gebrselassie, a two-time Olympic champion, was named as the international event ambassador of the Delhi Half Marathon 2022 on Thursday.
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