Thread by @althecat

The @WashingtonPost's @maxbearak has arrived in Sudan at an interesting time.

From @Xotrinx's War Update news service:
15/12 - Tigray soldiers that were UN peacekeepers defect & train TPLF rebels in Sudan
16/12 - The Sudan military moves its soldier to Ethiopian border

https://twitter.com/althecat/status/1471575095508414473

@washingtonpost @maxbearak @xotrinx . @maxbearak, the latest U.S. reporter on the ground near these camps tonight, with a fresh new story, which appears to be based primarily on HRW and Amnesty phone interviews with refugees in these camps will need to check his sources stories carefully.

There is a very clear pattern here, a story playbook which has been used now at least five times, on one occasion even scooping up the @USAID administrator @SamanthaJPower / @SamanthaJPower

https://twitter.com/PowerUSAID/status/1422340300807213057

The set up for the last threes re-eruptions of the bodies in the Tekeze story have been identical:
- Story/Report published (AP/Telegraph/Amnesty)
- Journalist visits camps (@PowerUSAID, @nimaelbagir, @maxbearak)

Usually combined with some kind of diplomatic push for TPLF.

This time the timing of:
13/12 - EU call for @UN_HRC meeting
13/12 - @maxbearak arrives Sudan
15/12 - @DeclanWalsh's @NYTimes non-story
16/12 - The Amnesty/HRW report
16/12 - WaPo report
17/12 - HRC meeting Geneva

Seems like a remarkable coincidence.