People carry an Ethiopian national flag in the streets after a national call to stand in honour of the Ethiopian National Defence Forces, in Addis Ababa, on November 17, 2020. The United Nations on November 17, 2020 expressed alarm at the "large-scale humanitarian crisis" developing on the border between Sudan and Ethiopia, where thousands of people are fleeing the ongoing fighting in northern Tigray every day. [AFP]
Both sides in Ethiopia's raging internal conflict claimed military successes on Wednesday, creating a muddied picture of fighting even as the government promised it would soon be over.