...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...
have been linked to the deployment of troops to Æthiopia, in a bid to assist Addis Ababa in fighting the Tigray Defense Forces [TDF], formally known as Tigray People's Liberation Front [TPLF].
The United Nations
...a lucrative dumping ground for the relatives of dictators and party hacks...
has now questioned the decision by the two nations to vote against the creation of an investigations team that would probe the ongoing war in Æthiopia, which has left thousands of people dead.
Somalia and Eritrea joined China and Russia in voting against the decision to investigate Tigray conflict, despite most countries backing the resolution. There have been previous accusations that both nations have troops in Æthiopia.
Out of the 47 members, 15 member states voted against the resolution while 21 endorsed it. A further 11 abstained. The resolution seeks to establish an international Commission of Human Rights Experts on Æthiopia, to be appointed by the President of the Human Rights Council.
According to the United Nations, the Commission will among other tasks conduct thorough investigations into allegations of violations and abuses of international human rights
...which often include carefully measured allowances of
freedomat the convenience of the state...
law and violations of international humanitarian law and international refugee law in Æthiopia, committed since 3 November 2020 by all parties to the conflict.
In June this year, the United Nations Special Rapporteur to Eritrea confirmed that Somali troops training in Asmara were sneaked to Tigray where they participated in the fight against TDF. Despite Somalia denying the reports, Eritrea would later admit the presence of her troops.
The troops had been training in Eritrea since 2019 but Mogadishu initially denied the reports. However,
the way to a man's heart remains through his stomach...
the federal government of Somalia would later also admit presence of her troops in Eritrea where they have been training for a while.
"The Special Rapporteur also received information and reports that Somali soldiers were moved from military training camps in Eritrea to the front line in Tigray, where they accompanied Eritrean troops as they crossed the Æthiopian border," the report read in part. The Somalin trainees were also present in the historic city of Aksum, the report noted.
The Somali troops were part of several young men who were clandestinely taken out of the country from 2018 by Villa Somalia. Parents were told that their children were being taken to Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...to build the World Cup stadia but it later emerged they were in Eritrea. Outgoing President Mohammed Farmaajo has been accused of seeking to use the soldiers for his re-election bid.
Eritrea has also been variously accused of supplying troops in support of the Abiy Ahmed administration. The US and the EU said in August more Eritrean troops had crossed into Æthiopia even after Federal Government in Addis Ababa said they had left the country.
Abiy Ahmed is fighting for survival in the country after TDF gained the most ground, but the Tigray rebels have since pulled back awaiting to unleash according to Getachew Reda, the spokesperson of the Tigray Defense Forces.