Ethiopia: Amhara Claims Western Tigray, Dismisses U.S. Remarks of ‘Ethnic Cleansing’ 

The spokesperson for the government in Ethiopia’s Amhara region, Gizachew Muluneh, dismissed U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s remarks about ethnic cleansing in western Tigray as “propaganda,” and then went on to claim the area as part of Amhara, Al Jazeera reported Mar. 11, citing quotes from Muluneh’s recent interview with AFP....