Factbox: As mediation calls mount, who has leverage in Ethiopia?


  • World
  • Monday, 23 Nov 2020

Ethiopians who fled the ongoing fighting in Tigray region, carry their belongings from a boat after crossing the Setit river on the Sudan-Ethiopia border in Hamdayet village in eastern Kassala state, Sudan November 22, 2020. REUTERS/Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Ethiopia has rebuffed attempts at international mediation since conflict erupted in its northern Tigray region on Nov. 4.

Federal troops are advancing on the Tigrayan capital Mekelle but Tigray's local leaders - who have a long history of guerrilla warfare - have vowed to fight.

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