By Theodore Jones –
Japan’s Foreign Minister, Yoshimasa Hayashi, has urged Japanese citizens in Ethiopia to evacuate due to escalating military tensions, but says there have been no reports of Japanese casualties so far.
“It is true that Japan’s Foreign Ministry and Ministry of Defense deployed experts to Ethiopia to assess the situation and collect data.
“At this time, commercial flights are still flying. “We strongly advise Japanese citizens to flee the country,” Hayashi added.
He claimed that no evidence of “physical damage” perpetrated on Japanese people in Ethiopia has been substantiated to date.
Ethiopia is currently seeing an uptick in violence connected to the approach of Tigray People’s Liberation Front insurgents toward Addis Ababa, which has been in a military struggle with the central government since 2020.
Several nations began removing their diplomatic missions from Ethiopia as a result of the crisis, and the government proclaimed a six-month state of emergency in November.
Sputnik