ADDIS ABABA, FEBRUARY 01, 2022 — While France grapples with challenges in West Africa, it is attempting to maintain relations in the East as it promised to support Ethiopia's rehabilitation efforts and the soon to be all-inclusive national dialogue through its Horn of Africa Envoy, Frederic Clavier, who met Ethiopia's Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Demeke Mekonnen today.
France suspended its military deal worth 100 million USD with Ethiopia in August, 2021, and despite Ethiopians demanding that their country is mostly safe, in November, 2021, France joined the United States in fearmongering the diplomatic community in Addis Ababa and repatriated its citizens from Ethiopia which many Ethiopians saw as a let down.
The timing of the visit of the French Horn of Africa Envoy coincides
with the upcoming African Union Assembly as well France's rising tensions with
its former colony, Mali.
Nevertheless, Ethiopia's Deputy Prime Minister said, during his meeting with the French envoy, France's position with regards to Ethiopia's conflict was balanced and said was encouraging for the two nations.
The French Special Envoy expressed France’s interest to strengthen relationships with Ethiopia as well its commitment to support Ethiopia's rehabilitation efforts from the conflict.
The Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) terrorist group destroyed thousands of schools and health facilities when it invaded Amhara and Afar. To recover from this loss, Ethiopia needs all the help it can get.
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