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More places in North Africa going pear-shaped fast due to inter-ethnic strife, doubtless leading to more population displacement and refugees turning up at the Med.
'An escalating conflict in Ethiopia’s restive Tigray region has killed hundreds of people, sources on the government’s side said, even as the prime minister sought on Monday to reassure the world his nation was not sliding into civil war.
'The flare-up in the northern area bordering Eritrea and Sudan threatens to destabilize Africa’s second most populous nation where ethnic conflict has already killed hundreds since Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed took over in 2018.
'Reuters reporters travelling in Tigray and the neighboring Amhara region saw trucks packed with armed militia and pickups with machine-guns mounted on the back rushing to the front line in support of the federal government push.
'Tigrayans account for just 5 percent of Ethiopians but had, before Abiy’s rule, dominated politics since militants from their ethnic group toppled Marxist military rule in 1991.
'They say Abiy’s government has unfairly targeted them as part of a crackdown on past rights abuses and corruption.
“These fascists have demonstrated they will show no mercy in destroying Tigrayans by launching more than 10 airstrike attempts in Tigrayan cities,” the TPLF said via Facebook.'
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'An escalating conflict in Ethiopia’s restive Tigray region has killed hundreds of people, sources on the government’s side said, even as the prime minister sought on Monday to reassure the world his nation was not sliding into civil war.
'The flare-up in the northern area bordering Eritrea and Sudan threatens to destabilize Africa’s second most populous nation where ethnic conflict has already killed hundreds since Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed took over in 2018.
'Reuters reporters travelling in Tigray and the neighboring Amhara region saw trucks packed with armed militia and pickups with machine-guns mounted on the back rushing to the front line in support of the federal government push.
'Tigrayans account for just 5 percent of Ethiopians but had, before Abiy’s rule, dominated politics since militants from their ethnic group toppled Marxist military rule in 1991.
'They say Abiy’s government has unfairly targeted them as part of a crackdown on past rights abuses and corruption.
“These fascists have demonstrated they will show no mercy in destroying Tigrayans by launching more than 10 airstrike attempts in Tigrayan cities,” the TPLF said via Facebook.'
Hundreds killed as conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray region escalates, sources say
An escalating conflict in Ethiopia’s restive Tigray region has killed hundreds of people, sources on