There is a particularly good question from the EBC at 19:31 into the briefing, this follows the question on the open letter at 17:28 from The Africa Report.
At the end 23:28 there are a couple of questions from the @todaynewsafrica publication which are also interesting in terms of understanding what the stance of that publication is.
It's worth noting that two weeks after this briefing - when the @StateDept said it was "very prepared to use its sanctions", and expected "immediate" action,- that no action has been taken. Also interestingly, during this period a new @AsstSecStateAF has been confirmed.
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They both relate to a phenomena that needs a better name.
It is often called "false equivalence" but, IMO that's not strong enoug. @Qnie_Addis has done a thread on "gaslighting" which is what it is, but as a term is not IMO specific enough.
@Qnie_Addis "The spread of conflict into the Amhara and Afar regions"
The conflict did not "spread". TPLF forces invaded.
This lack of precision makes it sounds as if Ethiopia contributed to this, when in fact at the time that it "spread" Ethiopia was under a unilateral ceasefire.
Here is the Q&A related to Ethiopia. Questions were focussed on the expulsions and the reasons for compliance with Ethiopia's persona-non-grata instructions, which the UN insists it does not recognise & says it is a long-standing position of the UN.
Today the World Meteorological Agency @WMO held a press conference in the lead up to the COP26 summit, which addressed water, and the importance of measures to address adaptation measures. media.un.org/en/asset/k17/k…
@WMO A new report has been issued which contains some very interesting slides on changes in climate so far (last 20 years) plus what is expected to happen.
In the above slide you can see now very clearly that Sub-Saharan Africa (particularly the Sahel & East Africa) and the Middle East are expected to get substantially wetter as the climate warms, while South America is expected to get drier.
The forecast path of Extratropical Cyclone Sam is unusual to say the least. The storm is expected to reach as far north as Iceland. And will continue to impact European Weather significantly for several more days.
Here is a 120 hour forecast for the north Atlantic where you can see how the storm continues northwards.
Here's another view of the same model, @NOAA's GFS which places it in larger context.