Ethiopia’s prime minister says he will lead his country’s army “from the battlefront” beginning Tuesday, a dramatic new step by the Nobel Peace Prize winner in a devastating year-long war. “This is a time when leading a country with martyrdom is needed,” Abiy Ahmed said in a statement posted on social media Monday night. Withrival Tigray forces moving closer to the capital of Addis Ababa, his government declared a state of emergency earlier this month. An estimated tens of thousands of people have been killed in the war between Ethiopian and allied forces and fighters from the country’s northe…

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