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| 'Afar has been raided': Suffering stalks Ethiopia's forgotten front |
| 2022-02-18 |
BLUF: When the Tigrayan forces charged beyond regional borders toward Adis Ababa, they also overran the pastorial semi-desert of Afar. And though Abiy Ahmed succeeded in driving the TPLF army back, there is no force in Afar to do the same; so Tigrayan troops continue running amok there, and nobody cares how they suffer. [AlAhram] The shell crashed through Aicha Nur's flimsy hut just as she was serving a lunch of bread and milk to her nine-year-old son Tahir. His slim body quickly became engulfed in flames.She grabbed Tahir and another son before fleeing on foot to safety, dodging an artillery assault allegedly carried out by Tigrayan rebels on her village in northern Æthiopia's Afar region. They managed to escape, but Aicha's six other children remain unaccounted for. She worries she has lost them forever to what has quietly emerged as the most active front in Æthiopia's grinding war. |
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