FILE - Ethiopian authorities soldiers thrust successful the backmost of a motortruck connected a roadworthy adjacent Agula, northbound of Mekele, successful the Tigray portion of bluish Ethiopia, Saturday, May 8, 2021. Ethiopia's authorities has announced connected Thursday, Dec. 23, 2021 that its forces volition not beforehand deeper into the Tigray region. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File) (Ben Curtis, Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

COPENHAGEN – The Norwegian Nobel Committee, which awards the prestigious Nobel Peace Prize, connected Thursday issued a precise uncommon admonition to the 2019 winner, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, implicit the warfare and humanitarian situation successful his country’s Tigray region.

“As premier curate and victor of the Nobel Peace Prize, Abiy Ahmed has a peculiar work to extremity the struggle and lend to peace,” the Oslo-based committee said successful a statement.

Abiy won the prize, successful part, for making bid with neighboring Eritrea aft 1 of Africa’s longest-running conflicts.

The committee said that “it indispensable beryllium emphasized that Abiy Ahmed’s prize was awarded connected the ground of his efforts and the justifiable expectations that existed successful 2019,” adding that “the humanities backdrop included an authoritarian governing strategy and wide taste conflicts.”

In November 2020, Abiy’s authorities allowed Eritrean forces into Tigray arsenic they unneurotic pursued the Tigray leaders aft governmental tensions erupted into war. Some tens of thousands of radical person been killed, and hundreds of thousands present look famine arsenic Ethiopia’s authorities has kept astir each nutrient and aesculapian assistance from Tigray since precocious June.

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“Since the autumn of 2020, developments successful Ethiopia person escalated to a broad equipped conflict,” the connection said. “The humanitarian concern is precise serious, and it is not acceptable that humanitarian assistance does not look to a capable degree."

The struggle entered a caller signifier successful precocious December erstwhile Tigray forces retreated into their portion amid a caller subject violative and Ethiopian forces said they would not beforehand further there.

The committee besides said that its deliberations are confidential. “Furthermore, it is not our relation to supply continuing commentary connected Ethiopian developments oregon to measure the presumption of a Peace Prize laureate aft the prize has been received.”

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Associated Press Writer Cara Anna successful Nairobi contributed to this report.

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