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A crowd of Ethiopians gathered outside the offices of the Department of International Relations and Cooperation in Pretoria to deliver a memorandum hoping that President Cyril Ramaphosa would intervene to help end the war in Tigray.
“Our villages are being attacked and destroyed. Our women are being raped. Everything is destroyed. I am excited, I cannot speak. I am very worried about my family. My six-year-old daughter lives with my mom and dad, I don’t know if they are alive or dead.
“I heard that my hometown of Adigrat is under heavy bombardment from the Eritrean army and there are many airstrikes from the Ethiopian army. I don’t know what is happening there. I am worried. Even if my daughter is alive, this trauma will remain with her throughout. his life “.
These were the chilling words of Gideon Geb as he stood with tears in his eyes in front of the offices of the Department of International Relations and Cooperation (Dirco) in Pretoria. Geb, who had traveled from King Williams Town in …