Kenya’s foreign ministry separately said that statements inciting ordinary citizens into the conflict “must be shunned”. “The fighting must stop!” he said in a statement, decrying the “particularly disturbing” lack of dialogue.

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni announced an IGAD meeting on November 16 to discuss the war, which pits the central government and allied forces against the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) and its allies, while President Uhuru Kenyatta urged the rival parties to lay down their arms and find a path to peace. International alarm about the yearlong conflict in Ethiopia is growing, with regional and Western powers calling for an immediate ceasefire after Tigrayan forces battling federal troops made advances this week towards the capital, Addis Ababa.Īs United States special envoy Jeffrey Feltman arrived in Ethiopia, the European Union and the East African bloc the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) on Thursday were among those to press for a halt in military operations.

End of nations games