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24 Jul, 6 tweets, 2 min read
This video pieces together news reports, facts about geography, & social media posts to tell the story of the Zhengzhou subway and road tunnel floods.

It makes a compelling case that the real death toll in Zhengzhou is likely several 1000, and not 56.

@AAAquaponics picks up the story in a thread here. [HT for alerting me to this.
Translation: In the middle of the night in Zhengzhou, several extended trailers pulled out the remains of the dead from the Jingguang Road Tunnel, flooded on July 20.

Water reached 13m deep in the 4km road tunnel. It took 4 days to pump it out.

This video is from the 20th as event unfolded. An amazing example of heroism.
Here I think we see video of a dam releasing water, along with a few additional harrowing images.
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26 Jul
Dear @SamanthaJPower,

You appear to be getting inadequate briefings.

Please let me enlighten you. The aid situation in Tigray is due to the TPLF not accepting an unconditional unilateral ceasefire and instead choosing to mount a multi-front military offensive against Ethiopia.
As a result Ethiopia is preparing for a defensive war on three fronts inside Ethiopian territory.
1. On the road to Gondar where the TPLF says it has taken Abbi Akray in Amhara Region.
2. On the road south from Mekele to Addis where TPLF says it has taken the town of Kodo.

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And 3. on the road which previously was the main route for bringing aid to Tigray through the Afar region where the TPLF says it has taken the town of Mille.

Last Sunday 18th July a @WFP convoy was attacked by the TPLF, and this is the reason that road is now closed.
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26 Jul
Addi Arkay information thread: Please add references to additional information, Amharic tweets here in replies.

Addi Arkay, taken by Tigray Forces on Saturday is inside Amhara Region, on the road to Gondar [META: I can't help but think of as a reference to Gondor/LOTR.] Image
Searching Addi Arkay on Twitter finds a fair bit of material including this blog which is reporting in English on the conflict for a Tigrayan audience presumably. wardoone.wordpress.com
Verification of the news at Addi Arkay has been taken from sources other than @reda_getachew and pro-TPLF media would be helpful.

The TPLF is claiming it is also advancing on the other major road south to Addis Ababa - here reported in Egyptian media.
dailynewsegypt.com/2021/07/25/tig…
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26 Jul
Compared to the @AFP report cited in last thread, this report from Reuters on Saturday is better, but still suffers with some of the issues which are problematic in reporting this conflict. Including the concept of this war "erupting" rather than being started by the TPLF.
See previous thread here:

This news about Adi Arkay is important and disturbing, but it doesn't fit the story lead which carries the same angle as the @AFP piece, i.e. that Amhara is moving to a war footing. Image
Here is the latest reporting on the escalation in Afar side. Presumably this will be updated soon with a report on the WFP convoy attack, if it hasn't been already.

The tenor of the report is that TPLF is on a renewed offensive and it seems odd that this is not the lead framing. Image
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26 Jul
A new twist on media dissembling over how the War started. Now @AbiyAhmedAli “said” the Govt’s response was in response to attacks on the federal army. This is a pure simple fact, not something that needs sourcing to a statement, raising the question of its veracity. Image
In addition to the odd description of a call to arms in defence against an announced clear and present danger from a belligerent aggressor, this @YahooNews story is deficient because of what it fails to mention.
.@AFPAfrica led the charge in condemning human rights atrocities in Tigray, attributing them mostly to Ethiopian, Amhara and Eritrean forces. Their reporting especially that of Cara Anna was instrumental in creating the good vs bad narrative that has beleaguered this conflict.
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26 Jul
Dear @maddow @MaddowBlog,

Please listen to this video. @TrueSeal3 speaks here for over 100 million Ethiopians, including the majority of the US diaspora.

The rapidly escalating #Ethiopia #Tigray crisis is a proverbial political iceberg bearing down on the @JoeBiden Admin.
CC @JoyAnnReid, @TiffanyDCross.

This is a live hot war which is at risk of spiraling out of control absent a more rational and informed policy stance being adopted quickly by the US State Dept. #AfricanLivesMatter.
CC @crookedmedia @ChrisCoons @SenJeffMerkley @benrhodes @PodSaveAmerica

Heads Up Folks: The rapidly metastasising situation in Ethiopia is a US foreign policy debacle which is about to explode in your faces.

Listen to this video and the one in the OP.
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26 Jul
For a the 5th time since they declared a unilateral ceasefire in the 11 day war in May in Gaza, Israel once again bombed Gaza.

@naftalibennett and @yairlapid continuie to squeeze Gaza in a manner which appears designed to prolong this appalling conflict.

#GazaUnderAttack
The new leaders of Israel appear to be determined to continue the war crimes of their Likud predecessors.

It is time for those who believe in a peaceful solution to this multi-generational conflict to once again speak out against this obscenity.
Hamas has indicated a willingness to pursue a peaceful solution. Israel has not. Both sides need international community and media engagement to build towards a resumption of negotiations.
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