{"id":117272,"date":"2021-04-05T10:03:55","date_gmt":"2021-04-05T02:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=117272"},"modified":"2021-04-05T10:04:00","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T02:04:00","slug":"ethiopia-says-eritrean-troops-have-started-to-evacuate-tigray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=117272","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia says Eritrean troops have &#8216;started to evacuate&#8217; Tigray"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/africa\/Ethiopia-says-Eritrean-troops-have-started-to-evacuate-Tigray-1223914?gallery=1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/498\/49837718.295.jpg\" alt=\"Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (L) welcomed by Eritrea's President Isaias Afwerki\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><em>Ethiopia&#8217;s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (L) welcomed by Eritrea&#8217;s President Isaias Afwerki<\/em><\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ADDIS ABABA, April 5 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Ethiopia has announced that military troops from neighbouring Eritrea have \u201cstarted to evacuate\u201d the conflict-hit Tigray region situated between the two African states.<br><br>The G7 group of leading nations had called for their rapid withdrawal.<br><br>This comes to Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed finally acknowledging their presence amid mounting reports of massacres and widespread sexual violence.<br><br>But residents of some Tigray cities and towns continued to report the presence of Eritrean soldiers in recent days.<br><br>Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch (HRW) have accused Eritrean troops of massacring hundreds of people in the Tigrayan town of Axum in November.<br><br>Abiy sent troops into Tigray in November, a move he said came in response to TPLF-orchestrated attacks on federal army camp. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia&#8217;s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (L) welcomed by Eritrea&#8217;s President Isaias Afwerki ADDIS ABABA, April 5 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Ethiopia has announced that military troops from neighbouring Eritrea have \u201cstarted to evacuate\u201d the conflict-hit Tigray region situated between the two African states. The G7 group of leading nations had called for their rapid withdrawal. This comes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":117274,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117272"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=117272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/117274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}