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East Africa: Eritrean Leader Says Ethiopia Peace Was Made By U.S. to Save TPLF
Addis Standard, 13 February 2023
In a rare remark about the two years war in the Northern Tigray region of Ethiopia and the peace dead that ended it, Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki, said that the peace deal… Read more »
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Eritrea: What President Isaias Afwerki Said During TV, Radio Interview - Part 1
Shabait, 12 February 2023
The first part of the Interview focused on the three reckless offensives that the TPLF had intermittently launched during critical harvest times for two years; the political and… Read more »
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Eritrea: Rights Group Alleges Govt Crackdown On Families of Draft Evaders
HRW, 10 February 2023
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Eritrean Leader Speaks on Reasons for Ethiopia, Tigray Peace Deal
Eritrea's President Isaias Afwerki spoke recently on the two-year war in the Northern Tigray region between Ethiopian and Tigrayan forces. He said that the peace deal that ended the war - signed in Pretoria, South Africa on November 2, 2022 - was brokered by the U.S., to save the Tigrayan forces from losing on the battlefield.
This comes as Eritrea's invasion of Ethiopia's Tigray regional state, and its role in the war was marked with reports of extreme atrocities, which both Ethiopia and Eritrea initially denied. However, in May 2021, Ethiopia admitted the involvement of Eritrean troops in atrocities against civilians, confirming several reports by media and human rights organisations, including the state-backed Ethiopian Human Rights Commission, which reported "grave human rights violations and an attack against civilians in Axum city, Tigray region."
The war between Ethiopia and Tigray began on November 3, 2020 and ended on November 2, 2022.
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