{"id":1218010,"date":"2022-01-15T13:50:04","date_gmt":"2022-01-15T18:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1218010"},"modified":"2022-01-15T13:50:10","modified_gmt":"2022-01-15T18:50:10","slug":"embarrassed-nobel-committee-scolds-peace-prize-winner-for-warmongering-in-ethiopia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/embarrassed-nobel-committee-scolds-peace-prize-winner-for-warmongering-in-ethiopia\/","title":{"rendered":"Embarrassed Nobel Committee Scolds Peace Prize Winner for Warmongering in Ethiopia"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fembarrassed-nobel-committee-scolds-peace-prize-winner-for-warmongering-in-ethiopia%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1218010&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/AP21330560419471-1-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">The Norwegian Nobel Committee issued a rare statement on Thursday suggesting Ethiopian&nbsp;Prime Minister&nbsp;Abiy Ahmed \u2014 who won the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize in part for ending a war between Ethiopia and Eritrea \u2014 \u201chas a special responsibility\u201d to end an ongoing civil war within Ethiopia, the Nobel Peace Center <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nobelpeacecenter.org\/aktuelt\/nobelkomiteen-om-etiopia\">reported<\/a> on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs Prime Minister and winner of the Peace Prize, Abiy Ahmed has a special responsibility to end the conflict and help create peace,\u201d the Norwegian Nobel Committee <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nobelpeaceprize.org\/presse\/uttalelser\/uttalelse-av-den-norske-nobelkomites-leder-13-januar-2022-om-situasjonen-i-etiopia\">wrote<\/a> in a statement issued January 13.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>The committee referred to a civil war between Ethiopian federal troops based in Addis Ababa and members of a separatist militant group in northern Ethiopia called the Tigrayan People\u2019s Liberation Front (TPLF) that began on November 4, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Abiy ordered Ethiopia\u2019s armed forces to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/africa\/2020\/11\/17\/ethiopia-nobel-peace-prize-winner-bombs-separatists-after-hacking-attacks\/\">launch<\/a> a comprehensive air and ground offensive against the TPLF after militants allied to the group, which formed in 1975 based on Marxist ideology, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-ethiopia-conflict-attack\/inside-a-military-base-in-ethiopias-tigray-soldiers-decry-betrayal-by-former-comrades-idUSKBN28R1IE\">attacked<\/a> federally administered military bases across the Tigray Region.<\/p>\n<p>Ethiopia\u2019s state-run Fana Broadcasting Corporation (FBC) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fanabc.com\/english\/pm-abiy-ahmed-says-national-army-takes-control-of-kasagita\/\">described<\/a> Abiy on November 26, 2021, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/africa\/2021\/11\/28\/nobel-peace-prize-winning-prime-minister-enters-front-line-of-ethiopian-civil-war\/\">leading<\/a> Ethiopian troops \u201con the frontline\u201d during a battle against TPLF militants in Ethiopia\u2019s northeastern Afar region.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201c[Ethiopian] Prime Minister and Commander-in-Chief of the army Abiy Ahmed who is now leading the Ethiopian National Defense Forces from the frontline announced that the army has successfully taken control of Asagita in Afar Region,\u201d FBC reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe won\u2019t give in until we bury the enemy,\u201d Abiy told the public broadcaster in a video interview at the time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll Ethiopians at home and abroad have shown their solidarity to us. Similar victories will continue. We are in a better position to claim full victory soon and pass on a free and prosperous Ethiopia to coming generations,\u201d the leader affirmed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we want to see is an Ethiopia that stands on our sacrifices \u2014 either to be Ethiopian or to be Ethiopia,\u201d Abiy added.<\/p>\n<p>Eritrean forces allied with Addis Ababa have deployed to Ethiopia\u2019s northern Tigray region to assist Ethiopian federal troops in the ongoing civil war. The development serves as a symbolic measure of how drastically Ethiopia\u2019s political landscape has changed since Abiy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nobelprize.org\/prizes\/peace\/2019\/press-release\/\">won<\/a> the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize for ending a decades-long border conflict with neighboring Eritrea.<\/p>\n<p>Ethiopia\u2019s civil war has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/uk-ethiopia-conflict-idUSKBN29B1N7\">displaced<\/a> an estimated 2.2 million people within the Tigray region since it began. The figure includes roughly 60,000 people who have <a href=\"https:\/\/theworld.org\/stories\/2021-02-08\/tigray-region-faces-deteriorating-crisis-three-months-conflict\">fled<\/a> to countries bordering Ethiopia, such as Sudan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome 800 people crossed from Ethiopia\u2019s Tigray Region into eastern Sudan in just the first few days of the new year,\u201d a U.N. refugee agency spokesman named Andrej Mahecic told reporters in Geneva, Switzerland, on January 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Norwegian Nobel Committee issued a rare statement on Thursday suggesting Ethiopian\u00a0Prime Minister\u00a0Abiy Ahmed \u2014 who won the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize in part for ending a war between Ethiopia &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1218010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1218010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1218010\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1218010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1218010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1218010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}