The truth - easily verifiable - is that TPLF commenced their military operations on Afar before they announced their faux ceasefire/withdrawal in mid December.
Also they are not only attacking on the Afar front.
TPLF’s army increased its attacks on Afar on 24th (after shelling/incursions for 5 weeks), leading to many calls by the Afar for the ENDF to come to their aid. This is obvious to anyone who searches “Afar”on Twitter.
This is a more interesting story & unlike this report, true.
This third segment in this story further repeats TPLF lies, lies which are easily verifiable.
Another better - and valid - news angle is hinted at here, I.E. explaining how and why the TPLF have consistently kept the humanitarian route into Tigray closed through their attacks.
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CNN has just had @StateDeptSpox Ned Price on, saying that if Russia invades Ukraine, the Russia-Germany Gas pipeline Nordstream 2 (completed - not online - opposed by US) will not proceed.
The remarks were made by @StateDeptSpox in this report from @NPR at 4.25pm US ET (10.25pm last night EU CEST). And in this case - with things moving so fast - the timing may actually be important.
@SecBlinken's briefing and announcement on this came at 12pm US ET (6pm CEST).
While the weakening of the Sahara east west water transport event has led to a weakening in the weird weather over the Arabian Peninsula, it has not stopped.
Most notably we have seen significant snowfall in Israel, Lebanon Jordan & Syria.
And with a major European (Atlantic) tropical rain/snow event now underway the rain and snow activity in the Levant is forecast to continue. Here's yesterday's precipitation forecast for the Southern Levant.
And the Northern Levant.... (both forecasts are through to 4th February.
Here are the latest long range rain forecasts for Southern Africa. All indicate some rain in the area with the GFS and CMC model forecasts showing lesser quantities than the ECMWF and KMA models.
Rainfall so far in the desert area has been fairly minimal but the forecasts show the slow moving low pressure storm currently over Zimbabwe maintaining a significant amount of energy - and moving south west over the desert. [Satellite images Jan 24-27 below]
This looks kind of rushed. The press conference was five hours ago, less than 24 hours after the joint Macron/Scholz presser last night. It was announced by @StateDept but not @StateDeptSpox or @SecBlinken and streamed live on Twitter.