11-08-20 – Aljazeera wrote
Ethiopian PM sacks top officials as Tigray conflict mounts
It said Deputy Prime Minister Demeke Mekonnen had been appointed foreign and Birhanu Jula was promoted to army chief of staff, from deputy army chief. Abiy also named Temesgen Tiruneh, who was president of the Amhara region, as the new intelligence chief. The prime minister is pursuing a military campaign he announced in the early hours of Wednesday, despite international pleas for dialogue with the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) in order to avoid civil war.