The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has recommended to the twenty Spanish tourists who remain trapped in a hotel in the Amhara region, in northwestern Ethiopia, that they not leave there until the situation calms down and the roads are safe to reach the destination. nearest airport.
As Foreign sources have confirmed to EFE, the Embassy in Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital, is in contact with this group of Spaniards, including several Catalans, who traveled to this region in the north of the country, precisely one of the areas to which that the Ministry considers "high risk" and "strongly" recommends not to go, as stated on the Ministry's website.
On August 4, the Ethiopian government declared a state of emergency after weeks of rising tensions and fighting by the Fano militia, a former ally of the federal army, against Ethiopian troops in the Amhara region.
Precisely, on the Foreign Affairs website it is detailed that the regions of Tigray, Amhara and northwestern Afar (Dalol, Kenebo, Berahle, Aba'ala, Megale, Yalo, Gulina and Ewa woredas) must be avoided due to the "periodic clashes of ethnic base, armed insurgency and tensions between militias and the federal army.
Outbreaks of communal violence and ethnic-based tensions "make any movement to the Gambela region (where a night curfew has been in place), Amhara (particularly the city of Lalibela and surrounding areas), western Oromia, Somali and Benishangul-Gumaz, he adds.
