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| Eritrean troops shell town in north Ethiopia - U.N. |
| 2022-06-01 |
| [Garowe] Eritrea ...is run by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), with about the amounts of democracy and justice you'd expect from a party with that name. National elections have been periodically scheduled and cancelled; none have ever been held in the country. The president, Isaias Afewerki, has been in office since independence in 1993 and will probably die there of old age... n forces shelled a city in northern Æthiopia last weekend, according to UN and regional forces, as a result of a rare bombing after two months of relative peace in the Tigray conflict. The United Nations ...where theory meets practice and practice loses... bulletin, which was viewed by Rooters, cites data from humanitarian organizations in Shiraro, which say at least 23 rounds were fired, some of which ended up in a school that houses the families of displaced persons. A 14-year-old girl was killed, at least 18 people were maimed, and 12 houses were damaged, one of the documents says. Late Monday, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Tigray (TPLF), the party that controls most of the Tigray region, accused Eritrean forces of attacking its troops on Saturday and Sunday in Shiraro, about seven miles from the Eritrean-Æthiopian border. Eritrea recently supports Æthiopian Prime Minister Abio Ahmed’s federal forces in the war with TPLF The TPLF said its forces killed four Eritrean commanders and more than 300 Eritrean soldiers in a kaboom over the weekend. Eritrean Information Minister Yeman Gebremeskel did not immediately respond to requests for comment, and Rooters was unable to verify the figures or the attack on its own. The Tigray communication network has not been working for a year. "As part of a desperate attempt to escalate tensions and draw us into more action, they fired on Sheraro on May 28 and 29," TPLF front man Getachy Redu tweeted. A front man for Æthiopia’s military envoy, Colonel Getnet Adan, and government front man Leges Tulu did not respond to a request for comment. Eritrean and Æthiopian troops withdrew from most of the Tigris in mid-2021, and in March the government announced a unilateral ceasefire. This allowed aid to enter the famine-stricken Tiger and led to a lull in hostilities in the conflict, which killed thousands of civilians and snatched millions. Earlier this year, however, Eritrean President Isaiah Afwerki told state media that his troops would intervene again if Tigrian forces attacked his country or threatened Æthiopia’s stability. |
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