Could two of Sweden's top oil bosses go to jail for crimes that occured in Sudan between 1999 and 2003. @jacoblorinc and I spent months investigating the allegations and uncovered cases of threats made against witnesses in the landmark trail.
The Ethiopian govt on Thursday expelled me after nearly two years in the country where I reported on the dizzying hopes from the moment @AbiyAhmedAli won his Peace prize to the horrors of the war in Tigray. 1/5
At Bole Airport this morning in Addis Ababa, three local reporters, myself, and other members of the public boarding a flight to Mekele were prevented from traveling by National Intelligence and Security Service. Phones and laptops confiscated, social media accounts scrutinized.
Today around lunch, an airstrike hit Shire in Tigray. Two civilians died, two staff members working for @RESCUEorg and four civilians were injured, according to people aware of the strike.
It’s been one week since Ethiopia announced Eritrean troops would leave Tigray. Yet multiple credible sources have confirmed sitings of Eritrean soldiers in Abiy Addi, Idaga Hamus and Adigrat.
Interesting snippet from the upcoming UN rights report on Eritrea. The UN rapporteur says he received information that Somali troops were indeed moved from military camps in Eritrea to Tigray and were present around Axum city.
Before fighting erupted, Abiy moved troops toward Tigray and sent military planes to Eritrea. His advisers and generals debated the merits of a conflict. Those who disagreed were fired, interrogated at gunpoint or forced to leave. Via @declanwalsh
“This is a man who is profoundly comfortable with taking extraordinary risks."
Eritrea goes for broke in Ethiopian civil war to crush old foe with a massive forced conscription campaign underway and continuous shelling of towns and villages across Tigray.
Fresh armed raids in Ethiopia’s northwest are filling camps. Thousands of males, aged 15 to 50, are held in makeshift detention centers in western Tigray, while trucks carrying Tigrayans, mostly women, children and the elderly, continue to be deported.
1: In June, 2021 @MSF_EastAfrica denounced the killings of three of its employees as a “brutal murder,” but did not identify any culprit. Now, one is coming into view. Read our months-long investigation with @declanwalsh
1: Hundreds of Ethiopian troops have converged on Kobo town near the border of the northern Tigray province, days after the gov and rebels from the region agreed on a humanitarian truce, Addisu Wedajo, the town’s mayor, said.
In a call with U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Friday, PM Abiy said Ethiopia wouldn’t ease up humanitarian access for the U.N unless the TPLF withdrew forces that crossed Tigray’s borders into neighboring states.
Ethiopia conducted airstrikes on Mekelle, the capital of the dissident Tigray region, on Monday as federal forces continue their attempt to take back ground lost to rebel fighters trib.al/5Fg5MF8