More from News. Supply chain snarls weigh on UK economic recovery. Sudan army chief names new governing Sovereign Council. Most Read. Poland-Belarus border crisis deepens: Live updates. In Pictures: Hindus bathe in frothy, polluted Indian river. Abiy's new Cabinet will be closely watched for signs of a changing approach to the conflict in Tigray amid mounting pressure from the West to resolve the crisis and outrage over the expulsion of the UN officials.
The prime minister's office, which blames the TPLF for starting the war, has said certain conciliatory measures such as declassifying the TPLF as a terrorist group can only happen after the new government has formed. But analysts don't believe that the new ministers will initially do much to soften Abiy's hard-line approach. However, in my opinion, it is very unlikely that someone from his own Cabinet will come up and challenge Abiy," said Mohammed Girma, an Ethiopian academic who researches social harmony as a visiting lecturer at the University of Roehampton in London.
Ethiopia faces growing international condemnation over its handling of the conflict in Tigray, home to 6 million people. The expulsion came after the officials raised concerns about the government's stopping medicine, food and fuel from entering Tigray, where hundreds of thousands of people face faminelike conditions.
The United States has also threatened sanctions if humanitarian access to Tigray isn't granted soon. Hudson believes that Abiy will remain defiant even in the face of further international pressure. Ethiopia enjoys the support of permanent UN Security Council members China and Russia, who have both made clear that they see the Tigray conflict as an internal affair for Ethiopia, Hudson said. On top of this, Hudson said, despite "the threat of really comprehensive and biting US sanctions hanging over him," Abiy expelled the UN officials in what "many Security Council members are calling the most brazen act of defiance against the UN in decades.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has told Ethiopia's prime minister that the international organization does not accept the country's decision to expel seven UN officials, amid a war and looming famine in Tigray.
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