The Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) termed as a “sick joke,” Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's announcement that he would lead the army on the frontlines as rebels advance toward the capital. “Abiy’s mimicry of Ethiopia’s wartime Emperors has taken on an all too palpable schizophrenic overtone,” TPLF spokesperson Getachew Reda said in a statement. “He has vowed to join ‘his forces’ in the battlefield in the honourable tradition of ...