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23 Sep, 4 tweets, 2 min read
This statement from @reda_getachew is remarkable, for the absence of any credible explanation for the failure of 400+ aid trucks to return.

After a long preamble the letter concludes the problem is the drivers. Apparently they don't want to go back for a variety of reasons.
Its also notable his letter does not explicitly deny that UN Aid trucks are being used for military purposes which is also rather odd. Several hundred words, but no denial of the central allegation.
The timing is also interesting. The missing aid trucks issue has been developing now for a while. The @UNEthiopia statement only came after numerous statements from the GoE. And the TPLF waits till now to respond.
Given the TPLF is in control of Tigray and responsible for ensuring aid can be delivered to millions of food insecure and 100s of thousands of starving people, one would have thought these issues would be top of mind.

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24 Sep
As the #UNGA is focused on Climate Change the biosphere is putting on a show. We currently have powerful cyclones in the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian Oceans and the yet more extreme weather, even though it's now late September.

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Update thread on this massive circulating low over Eastern Europe, at 4.5 million km2 its half the size of the United States.

Here we can see the Canadian jet arriving and squashing the storm, but not yet moving it.
The storm will be bringing increasing rain today to Scandinavia, Northern Germany and eastern EU nations. The EU has a new/updated weather warning website here >> meteoalarm.org/en?view=list so far the main warnings are for high winds along the southern Baltic Sea coast.
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The issue with this submarine deal is that it is not just a nuclear submarine deal. It is an aggressive Anglo-Saxon alliance between the UK, Australia and the US in the Indo-Pacific region against China.

@JoeBiden said in Geneva he didn't want a cold war.

This move starts one.
France is also far from the only nation annoyed, regardless of what some commentators are saying. EU President @vonderleyen was clear in her view. The Germans are about to have an election, and will express themselves later. But NZ was also pretty annoyed.
@vonderleyen NZ, promptly informed Australia that its nuclear submarines would be equally unwelcome in NZ as America's are.

And this is not because of trading links with China, it is because NZ is opposed to both nuclear weapons and navies.
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As nations of the world meet in NYC at #UNGA discusses Climate Change cooperation in advance of @COP26 there is a monster low pressure circulation/storm over Eastern parts of Europe.

And the weather forecast for the next five days looks a little hairy.
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#UNGA #AfricaSpeaks

AU President, Félix-Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo, President of the DRC / Congo spoke earlier in the UNGA on the opening day, 21st September.

His address covered a Pan African perspective.



Félix-Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo, Pres. of the Democratic Rep. of the Congo:

"Africa does not need charity. Africa is fighting to gain space for liberty and action in a world which is constantly competing so as to forge a better destiny...

#UNGA #AfricaSpeaks Day 1 - 21/9/21
Félix-Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo, Pres. of the Democratic Rep. of the Congo:

"... and to contribuite more to the general progress of humanity. Africa needs constructive win-win partnerships...

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22 Sep
Dear @LindaT_G @AsstSecStateAF @JoeBiden,

As the US continues to pursue its agenda to secure negotiations between the GoE and the TPLF this is what is being reported in Northern Ethiopia.

The current estimate for deaths in TPLF occupied Kobo is 600+.

#UNGA #UNGAEthiopiaCrisis
A German @dw_amharic report on Kobo. The massacre has been discussed in Ethiopia now for several days.
Additional info:
- TPLF was fighting 2 fronts 12 km from Kobo center
- Losing they chose to regroup in Kobo & used mortars, .50 & AAA machine guns on the outskirts of town.
This story remains un-reported by Western Media, and there are no recent specific international condemnations addressing numerous reported TPLF attrocities in the parts of Amhara Region that it is occupying.

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