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ERITREA is mobilising its armed forces and appears to be sending them to Ethiopia to aid its neighbour’s war in the Tigray region, activists warned today.
Eritrean rights activist Meron Estefanos told reporters today that her cousin had been called up “and is somewhere in Ethiopia fighting and we don’t know if he is alive or not.”
“It’s just a sad war, like our region has not seen enough blood for generations,” said Ms Estefanos, who is director of the Eritrean Initiative on Refugee Rights.
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The spectre of ethnic cleansing looms over hundreds of thousands trapped without food, water, or medicines in the North Darfur state’s besieged capital, El Fasher, writes PAVAN KULKARNI