The government of Canada is advising all Canadians in Ethiopia to leave the country immediately.

The advisory came just days after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called his Ethiopian counterpart Abiy Ahmed — one of several calls Ethiopia’s prime minister has had to field lately from foreign leaders concerned about the fate of the world’s twelfth most populous nation.

“I underscored the need for an immediate cessation of hostilities, increased humanitarian access on an urgent basis and meaningful dialogue towards a peaceful resolution,” Trudeau said.

But foreign admonitions seem increasingly irrelevant to a government that believes itself to be in an existential struggle. 

Earlier this month, Abiy