#Ethiopia; Addis Ababa surrounded and PM Abiy on the eve of flight. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs
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🗓️ 24 January 2024
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#Ethiopia; Addis Ababa surrounded and PM Abiy on the eve of flight. Gregory Copley, Defense & Foreign Affairs
https://apnews.com/article/egypt-somalia-ethiopia-dispute-somaliland-63d339c238b80c20bb09582d690b86a2s
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| 0:29.2 | available in Northern Ireland And I'm John Dr. with Gregory Coppley, editor and publisher of Defense and Foreign Affairs. |
| 0:40.0 | He's in his native Perth, Australia, Western Australia, it's summertime and at the same time we go to the |
| 0:46.0 | Horn of Africa. This is the guardian within these last hours. I'm scared to leave Addis Ababa |
| 0:51.7 | Ethiopia's Oromia region gripped by kidnapping pandemic. |
| 0:56.4 | First it was rebel groups, rights Guardian, using abduction for political aims, |
| 1:00.2 | but a broken economy collecting ransom is seen as easy money, and now anyone can be |
| 1:06.2 | a target. |
| 1:08.2 | Trouble in Addis Ababa, trouble in Eritrea, trouble in aroma, the aroma area, a civil war underway and yet the |
| 1:16.9 | news of the week Gregory is that the Prime Minister Abbey has closed a deal with Somaliland to work together. Ethiopia is |
| 1:27.9 | deteriorating. How to read all of this. It's also got debt problems, but that |
| 1:32.0 | has to wait for the gunfire. |
| 1:35.0 | Well, yes, you've got a massively troubled economy. |
| 1:39.0 | You've got inflation running at more than 30% in Ethiopia. |
| 1:44.4 | You've got perhaps 28 million Ethiopians suffering from starvation or malnutrition. |
| 1:51.1 | So is not a good sign? And as we've discussed, there have been millions |
| 1:57.1 | dead in the past three years until late 2022 of |
| 2:02.6 | of course that was the war between the federal forces and |
| 2:06.7 | the Tigray Popular Liberation Front, the extreme Marxist group. |
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