New revelations about atrocities by Somali soldiers in Ethiopia’s #Tigray war are casting a spotlight on an emerging military alliance that has reshaped the Horn of #Africa, weakening Western influence in a strategically important region.
The @globeandmail has obtained eyewitness accounts of massacres by Somali troops embedded with Eritrean forces in #Tigray in the early months of the war.
The new evidence raises disturbing questions about a covert military alliance between #Ethiopia, #Eritrea & #Somalia that has inflicted death and destruction on the rebellious #Tigray region in northern Ethiopia. Officially, the three governments have denied any alliance.
But The Globe’s investigation has provided, for the first time, extensive details of civilian killings committed by Somali soldiers allied with Eritrean forces in the region.

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