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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.
MAISSON HASSAN highlights how amid bombed-out cities and collapsing hospitals, women-led initiatives are keeping communities alive
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
While much attention is focused on Israel’s aggression, we cannot ignore the conflicts in Africa, stoked by Western imperialism and greed for natural resources, if we’re to understand the full picture of geopolitics today, argues ROGER McKENZIE