so talking tuesday from addis ababa, let's bring in william davidson. he's the senior ethiopia analyst with the international crisis group. he joins us on skype from cambridge in the u. k. well, you're welcome back to the news. so the ad is government forces. are they on the back foot inside the region of to grow? and yes, absolutely. i mean, at the end of june, we saw an almost complete cycle withdrawal from gray areas where the federal government still has a presence inside gray in the west of the region where i'm hora region has, has taken over. busy chunks of what used to be administered by, by to great government, but generally off the battlefield. not since and a failure to achieve the federal objectives integrate. they have completely withdrawn, and now we are seeing a new phase in the war and a new federal strategy is the government looking increasingly isolated in as much as inside its own country. it seems to be staging rallies to make it look good to rally support, and it's also coming on the international pressure over the accusations of hum

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