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26 Jul, 4 tweets, 5 min read
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.
Correction: The speaker in this video is @NebiyuAsfaw not @TrueSeal3

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27 Jul
Ok. So here's some more content that you probably won't want to see... but again its interesting as it reveals I think the TPLF current thinking.

Matt Bryden is a "senior strategic advisor" and director at Sahan, a private intel firm which works on Horn issues.
In a former life Canadian Bryden worked for the UN. But was sacked in 2012 for "lack of professionalism and political bias .... severely undermining the credibility of the United Nations." tesfanews.net/un-chief-fired…
At SAHAN Bryden works with @RAbdiAnalyst_ who was appointed to run social media for SAHAN, with a "team of young dedicare (sic.) analysts trained in social media monitoring, targeting, grooming and exploitation."

I.E. Social media psy-ops. Which explains a lot.
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27 Jul
This new publication on a U.S. publication which services Homeland Security communities, Central Govt., State and corporate provides a glimpse behind the curtain WRT US security interests views on the Tigray War.

Warning: Might be triggering....
hstoday.us/subject-matter…
The authors are certainly qualified:
Hafsa Mohamed: Bio hstoday.us/author/hmohame…
& Mohamed Ahmed
hstoday.us/author/mahmed/
At this link you can see who has tweeted the link. The article is relatively new and so has not yet been picked up in a significant way by the TPLF community.
twitter.com/search?q=https…
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26 Jul
A global weather surveillance thread.

We begin in the West Pacific where Typhoon #INFA is now over China bringing rain to 100s of millions.
Here's a closeup of #INFA over the past 12 hours rain bands have now reached the already flooded Henan province.
Some early coverage of the impact here: nypost.com/2021/07/26/chi…

Including more harrowing video of flooding.
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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.]
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.
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.
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