It's playing a major role in the civil war of neighboring Yemen, with Saudi Arabia leading international airstrikes, targeting rebels who were supported by Iran and trying to take control of Yemen.
An Ethiopian government official blamed the international media for an alarmist narrative, but the sight of these rebels calmly walking through a major city far from Tigrai gives no doubt that Abiy is under threat.
The rebels in eastern Ghouta have been surrounded for years and many of the civilians who are there, there are hundreds of thousands of them are desperately in need of humanitarian aid, like food and medical supplies.
President Rodrigo Duterte has held a peace talks with communist rebels, waging a long-running insurgency in the southern Philippine, arguing he was ready to go to war if the rebels wanted that.
Right after he was announced the winner of a disputed election for a sixth term, former general and military tactician traveled north to the front line to visit troops battling a rebel push on the capital.
The U.N. report also accuses Iran of failing to stop direct or indirect supply of Iranian made ballistic missiles to the Houthi rebels who fired them at Saudi cities, including the capital Riyadh.
Concerning the civil war in Yemen, the President said America would end its support for an international effort to defeat the rebels who are fighting Yemen's government.