The Atlantic Community mistake on Ethiopia: counter-productive statements and data-poor policy of the EU and the USA on the Tigray conflict

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Title:	The Atlantic Community mistake on Ethiopia: counter-productive statements and data-poor policy of the EU and the USA on the Tigray conflict
Author:	Abbink, Jon
Year:	2021
Issue:	150
Pages:	29
Language:	English
Series:	ASC working paper
City of publisher:	Leiden, The Netherlands
Publisher:	African Studies Centre Leiden (ASCL)
Geographic terms:	Ethiopia Eritrea European Union United States
Subjects:	conflict Tigre Tigray People's Liberation Front mass communication mass media foreign policy
External link:	https://hdl.handle.net/1887/3158742
Abstract:	Global media discussion and policy responses to the armed conflict in Tigray Region, Ethiopia, that started op 4 November 2020 by the TPLF (Tigray People's Liberation Front) party-led Tigray Regional government, are marked by bias, incompleteness, lack of context understanding, credulity and an anti-federal goverment attitude. The conflict, provoked by an unannounced and treacherous nightly attack by TPLF forces on federal army troups stationed in Tigray to protect the Region, was the result of misplaced power-mongering by the TPLF, and its building up of tension with the federal Ethiopian goverment.