Civil war intensifies! Coffee prices rise in Ethiopia

Recently, according to Ethiopian media reports, Fano leaders in the Gojjam region of Ethiopia Amhara state declared that they had vowed to retaliate against government forces that slaughtered civilians.

According to a statement released on social media by the head of the political department of the Fano forces in the Gojam district of Amhara, the Fano forces were forced to retaliate. Government forces have been killing unarmed civilians in the area, detaining citizens on a large scale, turning churches and monasteries into barracks, destroying and looting farmers' farmland, crops and livestock, the statement said.

His comments are consistent with reports from local sources and human rights groups in recent months. In the past year or so, Farno troops have been fighting with government forces continuously, but Ethiopian government forces dispatching drones, combat helicopters and other heavy armed forces are still unable to contain the actions of Fano armed forces, so government forces began to carry out a series of bad acts in the area, which is said to have killed at least 72 citizens.

In addition, the head of the Fano forces, Hai, accused the government of imposing economic sanctions on the people of Amhara and imposing restrictions on some basic commodities, especially in the areas of Dembecha and Feres Bet, where heavy fighting often takes place. Therefore, the official warned that if the government forces do not stop such operations, Fano forces will retaliate to make up for the losses and continue to fight on the front line.

However, earlier, the commander-in-chief of the Ethiopian National Defense Force and other senior military commanders held a meeting with Amhara state government officials and declared after the meeting that the Ethiopian government forces aimed to "completely defeat" the Fano forces by the end of December to end the conflict in the area, otherwise the IDF would withdraw from the area.

As a result, the current security situation in the country is still not optimistic, especially in Amhara State, where the ongoing conflict has seriously affected the lives and economic development of the local population. If the Fano troops then carry out retaliatory attacks on government forces, it may aggravate the fighting situation. Although the current conflict between the two sides is mainly concentrated in the Gojam region, the area is very close to Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, and the war may spread to the capital.

And, Amhara has always been the main food supply area of the country, but for this time, the state has been blocked, causing prices in Ethiopia to remain high. In addition, in July this year, Ethiopia issued a new foreign exchange reform, which led to a sharp fall in the foreign exchange rate, causing a serious rise in local prices in Ethiopia, some of which rose to 50-100%. According to the latest statistics, Ethiopian consumer prices rose 16.1% in October compared with the same period last year.

In addition, the problems of the Red Sea crisis continue to affect the country. It is reported that the Houthi forces in Yemen recently attacked a US military destroyer and three other ships in the Red Sea region. Houthi pointed out that the operation used 16 ballistic missiles, a cruise missile and a drone, all of which were accurate and directly hit the target.

And one of the vessels is a container ship owned by shipping giant Maersk, flying the American flag, which mainly serves between the port of Djibouti and the port of Oman. However, according to the latest statement issued by the US Central Command, the US ship successfully repelled a variety of weapons fired by the Houthi forces in Yemen and protected the ship. However, this news also proves that there are still many dangers in shipping in the Red Sea area, and ships can only choose to continue to detour, which also leads to high shipping prices.

For the Ethiopian coffee industry, prices are rising, the exchange rate is falling, and import and export shipping prices are rising, which also increases the cost of planting, and the price of Ethiopian coffee is also rising. According to the latest minimum export price for coffee issued by the Ethiopian Coffee and Tea Administration, prices across the board rose by 2%.

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