State-affiliated TV purports to show Ethiopian PM on the battlefront

Abiy Ahmed claims in the footage that the war was being conducted with a high level of success'

A state-affiliated Ethiopian TV channel has broadcast footage purporting to show the country's Nobel peace prize-winning prime minister on the battlefront of the country's year-long war against Tigray forces, four days after he announced he would direct the army from there.

Wearing military uniform, Abiy Ahmed claimed in the footage that the war was being conducted with a high level of success" and referred to locations on the border between the country's Amhara and Afar regions, which neighbour Tigray.