Of this statement has called for the withdrawal of TPLF’s invading and occupying forces in Amhara, and imposed targeted sanctions on TPLF leadership citing their 3 month brutal offensive against civilian populations, it might have done some good.
The continued inability of the US UK and EU to say anything about the Ethiopian crisis that explicitly names and condemns a three month terrorist incursion by TPLF forces into Amhara and Afar regions renders their words un-bearable in Addis Ababa.
If Western nations can’t bring themselves to say anything relevant or useful, it would be better if they said nothing at all.
Statements like these are felt in Ethiopia like stabs in the back.
The US and EU are supposed to be Ethiopia’s allies. They act like enemies.
For anyone who has ears that can listen and eyes that can see, it is apparent that no crimes commits by the TPLF can ever be enough. Western nations were never really allies or friends of Ethiopia, they were allies and friends of the TPLF.
These statements are not in response to what is happening in Ethiopia. They are responses to the Tigray lobby in the West, which - led by @reda_getachew - has once again gone into high gear crying “Genocide” as they commit it, and claiming they are being invaded as they invade.
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If Europe attempts to intervene in these contracts - on a renewable energy development project with the potential to lift 100s of millions out of extreme poverty - it will alienate not just Ethiopia but much of Africa and millions of Africa diaspora.
Unfortunately this sounds like exactly the sort of thing that the @EEAS_EU under High Representative @JosepBorrellF might think is a good idea.
A far better approach might me a sincere approach for reconciliation with the newly sworn Govt. of Ethiopia.
The severe south-westerly gales Wellington experienced yesterday were just a foretaste of a series of, tropical origin, extreme weather events forecast for NZ over the coming 16 days.
Here is a wider angle view showing the atmospheric river set up of NZ's climate as the ICTZ (monsoon belt) is moving south for summer.
1. Warm wet air comes in from the north heading south east. 2. Cold air comes in from the south heading north west.
The storm currently affecting NZ contains a combination of warm and cold streams merging south east of NZ and curling back around to target NZ from the South West. This set up is similar to the severe easterly Canterbury Gales back in May.
Hurricane Pamela's weird trajectory is because she's running in to a massive wind field at Jet-stream level that is blowing in off the Pacific. This appears to be accelerating her strengthening.
Here we see Pamela's development over the past 24 hours. To her north you see high level clouds blowing in from the South East over the Tijuana Peninsula - and blowing the storm over the great lakes away to the north east.
And in this closeup we see #PAMELA's explosive convective development over that 24 hour period. As the sun rises she's looking a little ragged but huge even though the sheer on her northern side is massive, with massive outflow plume already extending well beyond Texas.
And that stream of water doesn't stop till it gets to Canada. This animation is over five days. And watch how that dry air blast from the North West clears nearly all the moisture off of the United States in Pamela's wake.
Here's two rain forecasts for Mexico. The first (GFS) for 10 days. The second (@ECMWF) for three and a half days. Which is all its going to take for most of this to happen
It appears the very wet Northern Hemisphere, and accompanying peculiar weather phenomena may finally be coming to an end.
The focus on extreme weather will now move to the Southern Hemisphere for the next 6-8 months.
It's not quite over yet, but the forecasts appear to be in agreement that the unusually intense tropical storm activity around the planet is about to stop - and the forecast arrival of a La Nina ENSO condition is a big part of this >> cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/analy…
Moving east to west this thread will survey the tropical belt beginning here in West Pacific, which is not quite finished yet, as you can see.
. @AFP report on escalating effort to remove TPLF forces from occupied parts of Amhara initially.
Given that these invading forces have been committing multiple war crimes one might think it would not be unreasonable to expect IC spokespersons to call on TPLF to withdraw.
Now that the international media are showing signs of reducing their partiality in favour of the TPLF, it is unfortunate that news of this operation is being reported via the false statements of the enemy.
It is fortunate that many of the media now know not to believe statements from @reda_getachew.
But it would benefit the truth greatly if news of the progress and operations underway in this law and order operation originated from official sources.