由新罕布什尔州民主党参议员珍妮·沙欣率领的参院民主党人正敦促国务卿马尔科·鲁比奥进行干预，因为埃塞俄比亚提格雷地区重燃战火，引发人们对2020-2022年内战卷土重来的担忧。在一份首先与Semafor分享的声明中，参议员们警告称，非盟斡旋结束那场战争的协议——华盛顿曾支持该协议——正在“瓦解”。这批参议员——包括参院外交委员会非洲小组的所有民主党成员——批评冲突双方。他们谴责了一架无人机袭击了一辆运载美国资助的流离失所者粮食援助的卡车，埃塞俄比亚军方涉嫌实施了该袭击；并指责提格雷武装破坏该地区临时政府、拒绝解除武装、强行征召平民。他们还指责特朗普政府在敌对行动重燃前几天让针对地区行为体的制裁失效。
Senate Democrats led by Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., are pressing Secretary of State Marco Rubio to intervene as renewed fighting in the Tigray region of Ethiopia raises fears of a return to the 2020-2022 civil war. In a statement shared first with Semafor, the senators warn that the African Union-brokered deal ending that war, an agreement Washington backed, is “unraveling.” The group of senators — which includes all Democratic members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee’s Africa panel — criticized both sides of the conflict. They condemned a drone strike on a truck carrying US-funded food aid for displaced people in northwestern Tigray in which the Ethiopian military is suspected, and accused the Tigrayan forces of undermining the region’s interim government, refusing to disarm, and forcibly conscripting civilians. They also faulted the Trump administration for letting sanctions on regional actors lapse days before hostilities resumed.
提格雷地区的紧张局势已持续数月升级，伴随冲突和空袭。上周，提格雷人民解放阵线宣布发动“防御性战争”，随后其部队夺取关键地点并推进至邻近的阿法尔和阿姆哈拉地区。就在几天前，提人阵公开与其他旨在推翻联邦政府的埃塞俄比亚武装团体结盟。
Tensions in Tigray have escalated for months with clashes and airstrikes. Last week, the Tigray People’s Liberation Front declared a “defensive war” before its forces seized key locations and pushed into neighboring Afar and Amhara regions. Just days before, the TPLF publicly allied with other Ethiopian armed groups aiming to overthrow the federal government.
重燃的冲突加剧了人们对这个动荡地区进一步失稳的担忧，该地区还深陷苏丹、索马里和也门等其他冲突。2020-2022年提格雷战争造成超过10万人死亡，并导致该地区发生饥荒。
The renewed conflict has heightened fears of further destabilization in a volatile region beset by other conflicts in Sudan, Somalia, and Yemen. The 2020-2022 Tigray war killed more than 100,000 people and contributed to famine in the region.
华盛顿的做法参差不齐。政府在6月对据称破坏和平的未具名提人阵官员实施制裁，但让2021年支持更广泛的埃塞俄比亚制裁计划的行政命令于本月到期。国务院谴责了对援助车队的袭击，但未点名责任方。
Washington’s approach has been mixed. The administration imposed sanctions in June on unnamed TPLF officials it said were undermining peace, but let the 2021 executive order behind the broader Ethiopia sanctions program expire this month. The State Department condemned the aid convoy strike without naming who was responsible.