Ethiopia’s spiralling war tests fragile region’s stability
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The Citizen
With thousands of people dead, two million displaced and mounting fears of a rebel march on Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s war threatens to unleash instability across the fragile East African region even as envoys scramble to end the year-long conflict. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken echoed the worry felt by many when he warned Friday that a failure to strike a deal “would lead to the implosion of Ethiopia and spill over into other countries in the region”. “That would be disastrous for the Ethiopian people and also for countries in the region,” said Blinken, who is due to arrive this week in K…