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Despite warnings of harsh economic measures, Ethiopian authorities allegedly rounded up ethnically Tigrayan residents last week and detained at least 16 Tigrayan United Nations employees and dependents in crackdowns on suspected TPLF supporters. Yet sanctions and threats have failed to trigger any progress. Washington has already tried a punitive approach, sanctioning EritreaвЂ™s defense force and its head of national security while threatening to remove Ethiopia, the continentвЂ™s second most populous nation, from its preferential trade program, the African Growth and Opportunity Act. Eritrea sent troops into Tigray to aid its enemy-turned-ally Ethiopia but also used that opportunity to detain thousands of Eritrean refugees and allegedly commit human rights abuses, according to reports by Amnesty International and Reuters. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement. вЂњEritreaвЂ™s destabilizing presence in Ethiopia is prolonging the conflict,вЂќ U.S. ObasanjoвЂ™s words come as the United States imposed sanctions on EritreaвЂ™s military and its ruling political party on Friday, accusing them of contributing to the conflict. On Sunday, the AUвЂ™s special envoy for the Horn of Africa, former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, said he was вЂњoptimisticвЂќ that вЂњa peaceful resolution of the conflict can be secured,вЂќ but an immediate cease-fire is needed for dialogue to begin. In the meantime, the African Union (AU) has intensified its diplomacy. Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta visited Abiy on Sunday to push for an end to the conflict. AfricaвЂ™s leaders may be the last bulwark preventing an even broader and more brutal civil war. When fighting between the Ethiopian government and the Tigray PeopleвЂ™s Liberation Front (TPLF) began just over a year ago, in what the government called a вЂњpolice action,вЂќ few observers would have envisaged it culminating in Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed urging all citizens to arm themselves and defend the capital, Addis Ababa.ДЄ state of emergency is now in place, with neither side ready to negotiate. Kenya and the AU Push for Peace in Ethiopia

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