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2020-11-21 Africa Horn
Are Emirati Armed Drones Supporting Ethiopia from an Eritrean Air Base?
[BELLINGCAT] Æthiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed declares that the war in the Tigray Region has entered its "final phase".

The conflict broke out on November 4 when the country’s central government accused the region’s local authorities of holding "illegal" elections and seizing a military base. Thousands of civilians have fled to neigbouring Sudan as the federal army advances towards the regional capital of Mekelle.

Tigray politicians have claimed that they are under attack "on several fronts" — including neighbouring 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...
, with which the region shares a long border. As Regional President Debretsion Gebremichael recently told Rooters, "our country is attacking us with a foreign country, Eritrea. Treason!"


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