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Kenya: Ethiopian Minister Labels U.S. Embassy ‘Terrorist’

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An Ethiopian minister has thrust himself in the eye of controversy after labelling Washington’s Mission in Addis Ababa as “a terrorist that should leave the country.”

Mr Taye Dendea Aredo accused the US Embassy of provoking violence and accelerating terrorism.

In a Facebook post, he claimed that the US Embassy is fueling tensions by creating fears through issuing of security alerts.

Last week, the embassy warned about the risks of a terror attack in Ethiopia’s capital and elsewhere in the country.

It also warned US citizens to leave the Horn state over the risk of escalating violence as the Tigray People’s Liberations Front (TPLF) advances to the capital.

“I am writing as a proud citizen, not as a state minister of Ethiopia. US Embassy, Addis Ababa, posted one badly terrorising false information four times in five days. The target is the economy. It is trying to block commercial mobilities to and from Ethiopia by creating fake fears.

“Huge damage has been caused by the repeated terrorist act of the Embassy! Thus, the embassy has unequivocally proved itself to be a terrorist! I think Diplomacy has its own limits and protocols,” the minister wrote.

Mr Aredo stressed that Ethiopians do not want their country to be another Libya or Iraq, where the controversial involvement of the US military saw the governments toppled and the countries unable to build new stable administrations.