Ongoing heavy fighting and massacres of innocent civilians, property & livestock lootings by Eritrean troops with a green-light given them by Abiy Ahmed, as well as severe mass starvation, are reported in the Erob Woreda of northeastern Tigray!
People affected by the conflict in Tigray load food aid provided by USAID and Catholic Relief Services onto a donkey cart to be tansported to their home, outside Mekele, Ethiopia, on on Jan. 12, 2021.
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More than two months after Ethiopia declared victory in its Tigray war, there is rapidly growing international alarm at evidence of starvation and destruction in the region, including reports of emaciated refugees, gutted hospitals, massive looting, burning refugee camps, kidnappings, rapes and other war crimes.
NAIROBI (Reuters) – A senior Ethiopian general said in a video clip posted on social media this week that Eritrean troops had entered the country uninvited while his soldiers were battling a rebellious force in the northern region of Tigray.
The video, whose authenticity Reuters could not independently verify, shows Major General Belay Seyoum addressing a meeting in the Tigrayan capital Mekelle in late December.
“An army that we don’t want has entered. Are we the one that invited them? No,” he said. “They just entered by themselves, and this has to be made clear.”
Tigrayans in Washington, DC, USA, memorized massacred Tigrayans in the genocidal war waged on the Tigray regional state by the PM of Ethiopia Abiy Ahmed assisted by President Isaias Afeworki of Eritrea.
Addis Abeba, December 23/2020 – Disturbing eyewitness reports are reaching Addis Standard about overnight attacks which left “more than 90” people killed in Bekuji Kebelle, Bulen Wereda, Metekel Zone, in Benishangul Gumuz regional state.
Reports coming since this morning indicate that civilians were targeted in the attack which lasted for “several hours” in which “more than 90 people were killed, houses torched and hundreds were displaced,” according to one eyewitness who contacted Addis Standard on conditions of anonymity.
US official among sources saying soldiers from Eritrea are fighting in operations against Tigray People’s Liberation Front
A refugee who fled the Ethiopia’s Tigray conflict carries distributed supplies at Um Raquba refugee camp in Gedaref, eastern Sudan. Photograph: Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/Getty Images
Peter Beaumont
A US official and other diplomatic sources have backed accusations that Eritrean soldiers are fighting alongside Ethiopian troops to help Abiy Ahmed’s government in the war on the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), complicating an already dangerous conflict.
The claims made to Reuters, which interviewed several unidentified diplomats in the region and a US official, follow mounting allegations by Tigrayan leaders that Eritrea, long a rival of Ethiopia, had joined with Ethiopian forces against a common enemy despite denials from both nations.
Ethiopia: food rations for displaced people in Tigray have run out. We reiterate our urgent call for unconditional & safe humanitarian access to the affected regions. People in need are still not able to access any assistance. https://t.co/h8nSo9SHW4pic.twitter.com/ZqPNAlwux9
Tokombiya is a town in #Eritrea. Ethiopian General admits it in plain words that a force that started from Tokombiya 🇪🇷 jointly attacked Tigray to control Humera and shire. @antonioguterres@UN why would you not recognize Eritrea’s involvement in #Tigray war?#StopWarOnTigrayhttps://t.co/5nJOI80GIw
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States believes reports of Eritrean military involvement in the conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray region are “credible,” a State Department spokesperson told Reuters on Thursday, despite denials by both nations.
Residents carry jerrycans along a street in Dansha town in Tigray Region, Ethiopia November 9, 2020. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri
The spokesperson called on any Eritrean soldiers there to pull out.
“We are aware of credible reports of Eritrean military involvement in Tigray and view this as a grave development. We urge that any such troops be withdrawn immediately,” the spokesperson said.
CNN uncovers reality for refugees on the Ethiopia-Sudan border03:52
Hamdayat, on the border between Sudan and Ethiopia (CNN)Huyeet is limping as he crosses the border, his leg bandaged with dirty gauze.
As he enters Sudan, fleeing Ethiopia’s Tigray province, border guards direct him to the first aid tent nearby.
The medical facilities here are basic and Huyeet grimaces as the grimy dressing is unraveled, revealing a gunshot wound.
Huyeet is 24, and like many of the people CNN met as they crossed the border, he refuses to give his surname. Even here, so far from home, he says he feels unsafe.
Huyeet says that when the Ethiopian Army captured his hometown, Humera, its soldiers reassured Huyeet and those with him that they would be safe
The UN Secretary-General said on Monday it was “essential to quickly restore the rule of law” in Ethiopia’s northern region of Tigray, where Government forces and those loyal to the ruling Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) have been engaged in fighting for more than a month.
ADDIS ABABA/NAIROBI (Reuters) – Rebellious forces from Ethiopia’s northern region of Tigray said they had shot down a military plane and retaken a town from federal forces on Sunday, a day after the prime minister announced federal troops had taken over the regional capital and military operations were complete.
There was no immediate comment from the government or the military on the claims made by Debretsion Gebremichael, leader of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) in text messages to Reuters.
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di Antonio Mazzeo
Chissà se adesso che nella regione del Tigray sono iniziati i bombardamenti da parte del governo di Addis Abeba, ci sarà qualcuno in Italia che s’interrogherà sull’opportunità di aver firmato e ratificato in fretta e furia un accordo di cooperazione militare con l’Etiopia
The following video report shows Eritrean and Tigrayan victims of airstrike took place today in Adigrat City of Tigray. We strongly condemn this brutal genocidal air-attack by the Ethiopian Government on innocent civilians in Tigray! We call on the International Community of the World to condemn this kind of brutality and to intervene to save the helpless and defenseless civilians from the senseless war waged on the Tigray Regional State of Ethiopia!
Ethiopia’s Tigray province faces famine due to war and locust infestation
Ethiopian refugees gather in Qadarif region, easter Sudan
ETHIOPIA’S war-torn Tigray province faces famine, researchers warned today, with a plague of locusts descending on the northern region as officials called for urgent humanitarian aid.
The region has been plunged into turmoil as government forces continue a devastating military offensive, displacing more than 100,000 civilians and causing hundreds of deaths.
United Nations humanitarian chief Mark Lowcock confirmed that his office had set aside $20 million (£14.8m) to fight hunger in Ethiopia in the face of “civil unrest, growing insecurity, locust infestations” and the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic.
About one million of Tigray’s people, out of a total population of six million, are already reliant on humanitarian assistance, as are millions more near its borders.
Now the region’s worst locust outbreak for decades has raised the spectre of famine.
Researchers warned that the insects had “destroyed vast areas of cropped land and numerous swarms remain active in north-eastern Ethiopia, where Tigray is located.”
Around 80 percent of Tigray’s population are subsistence farmers and the war is seriously disrupting the harvesting season. The situation is being made worse by the government diverting funds from the regional government to local administrations.
Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed continues to ignore calls for peace talks, insisting that he will complete his “law enforcement operation.”
Violence is escalating in Ethiopia, where a leader once lauded internationally for his reform agenda and for forging peace with neighboring Eritrea now faces the specter of civil war.
This month, long-simmering tensions between Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s government in Addis Ababa and leaders from the country’s northern Tigray region have spilled into the open. Tigrayan forces and the national military have clashed, and Amnesty International recorded evidence of an alleged massacre of civilians. Hundreds of people have been reported dead. Tens of thousands have fled as refugees to neighboring Sudan.
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Ethiopian refugees gather in Qadarif region, easter Sudan
