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20 Feb, 12 tweets, 3 min read
Detailed investigation by a well known independent journalist on reports of Somali soldiers in Tigray
TLDR: Eritrea has trained Somalians. No proof that they went to Tigray. But unclear where all the SNA men in Eritrea will be deployed to.

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20 Feb
An article by Jan Nyssen, a Belgian physical geographer, and professor of geography at Ghent University, on the ongoing war and its impact on civilian life in Tigray

ethiopia-insight.com/2021/02/19/cat…
"Ever since I started research in Tigray in 1994, the fight against famine has been a major priority. With academic colleagues, we tried to assist through studies and projects for environmental conservation. But now, it feels as though we are back to square one" he says
From February to May 2021, more than half of Tigray’s territory is expected to suffer “Emergency” outcomes by the U.S.’s Famine Early Warning System Network—the last stage before “Famine.
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19 Feb
An article from the Telegraph on the Debre Abay massacre. As most of you are aware, the article contains disturbing material (mentions of violence, etc)

telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/02/1…
Chatting as they wander through the aftermath of what appears to be a mass execution of civilians in the Tigray region, soldiers laugh and joke among themselves.
Off to one side they spot a young man who seems to have survived by pretending to be dead.
“You should have finished off the survivors,” the cameraman says in Amharic, Ethiopia’s lingua franca

Around 40 bodies in civilian clothes can be seen in the four-minute clip.
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18 Feb
Disturbing video from Adwa shows summary executions of two men in civilian clothing. The first video records gunfire and shows dirt kicked up from behind a wall while civilians and armed men in Ethiopian uniform look on.
The second clip shows armed men in Ethiopian uniform forcing civilians to move the bodies away from the main road. Threatening them and instructing them to drop the bodies and return when they deem the dead men are far enough off the road.
The third clip shows the civilians walking away and the executed men laying in the dirt. The soldiers huddle around a man who seems to be patching a wound. At the end of the video, one of the civilians is called back to the group of soldiers.
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18 Feb
AP News has released a detailed but disturbing report on the Axum massacre. Report contains details of death, violence and images that some may find unsettling
Bodies with gunshot wounds lay in the streets for days in Ethiopia’s holiest city. At night, residents listened in horror as hyenas fed on the corpses of people they knew. But they were forbidden from burying their dead by the invading Eritrean soldiers.
Those memories haunt a deacon at the country’s most sacred Ethiopian Orthodox church in Axum, where local faithful believe the ancient Ark of the Covenant is housed.
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8 Feb
Comprehensive thread on an apparent mass-execution of 14 men in Debre Abay. This thread will be extremely graphic! Please be warned.
On January 12, the pro-TPLF site Tghat posted about two separate massacres. One of which they claimed killed 100 in Debre Abay on the 5 and 6 of January. Just over a month ago. However, it was impossible to verify the claim due to the internet situation. tghat.com/2021/01/12/mas…
Yesterday, footage finally came out which confirms that a massacre did take place in Debre Abay. From this point on, the thread will be very graphic as we will examine the video. Below is the video in its entirety. Again. Extremely graphic.
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7 Feb
Pictures have emerged showing the living conditions of IDPs in Shire. The living conditions are visibly poor. Lack of water, food, healthcare, sanitation facilities and malnutrition is rampant

The IDPs are living in an abandoned construction site which is unsafe and dangerous
IDPs at Shire campus (Aksum University)

-more than 40,000 IDPs with around 6000 under 5 years old
-more than 400 pregnant and lactating mothers
-more than 800 with diabetes, hypertension, epilepsy,
bronchial asthma or HIV. Seven of them have died.
-200 disabled and 600 elderly
At the IDP site (abandoned building)
-no organization or UN agency to coordinate+support the people
-only 20 kg of wheat was supplied to family heads for the last 3 months
- poor sanitation facilities with large-scale open defecation and many people with diarrhea
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