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Ethiopia’s Tigray Liberation Front accused the UAE of supporting the Ethiopian government in the ongoing war and confirmed that it had bombed Asmara airport in Eritrea, prompting condemnation by the United States and fear of internationalizing the conflict.
A spokesman for the Tigray Region Liberation Front, Getacho Rida, said that the UAE supported the Ethiopian government with drones in its war against the region, emphasizing that these planes were launched from the Emirati military base in Assab, Eritrea. .
Getachew also confirmed that its forces targeted the Asmara international airport with a missile strike, which is the airport that was used to launch strikes in the Tigray region, according to the front.
The leader of the Tigray region, Dibrasion Gebramikail, also confirmed that his forces fired missiles at the airport of the Eritrean capital, justifying this by attacking his forces “on several fronts” and accusing Eritrea of sending tanks and thousands of troops to Tigray. .
“Our country is attacking us with the help of a foreign country, which is Eritrea. (It is) treason!” He added in a statement.
Telephone lines to Eritrea were cut and a diplomat told Reuters shortly before communications were cut that Asmara residents had spoken of power outages and said some were leaving the city fearing what might happen.
US Under Secretary of State for African Affairs Tibor Nagy condemned the attacks against Eritrea, saying on Twitter: “The United States strongly condemns the unjustified attacks launched by the Tigray People’s Liberation Front in Eritrea on November 14 and its attempts to internationalize the conflict in Tigray. We continue to call for action. Immediate protection of the civilian population, reduction of tension and restoration of peace. “
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni initiated mediation in his country between the Ethiopian government and the Tigray Front, as government officials said Ethiopian Foreign Minister Demiki Mekonnen Hassan and representatives of the Front are expected to arrive. to Uganda on Monday.
On Saturday, Ethiopia’s official television reported a statement by the United Arab Emirates in which Abu Dhabi expressed solidarity and support for the Ethiopian government in law enforcement and support for the government’s efforts to enforce order.
Reuters quoted several Ethiopian refugees who arrived in the Sudanese city of Hamdayit on Saturday as saying that Eritrea had shelled their areas.
Eritrea’s Foreign Minister Osman Saleh Mohamed denied last week that his forces had sent troops to Ethiopia. “We are not part of the conflict,” he told Reuters.
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has confirmed that his country alone is capable of achieving its military objectives in the Tigray region, as military clashes continue in the region between the federal army and the forces of the Tigray Front.
armed attack
Meanwhile, Ethiopia’s Independent Human Rights Commission reported that 34 people were killed in an armed attack on a passenger bus in the Benishangul-Gumuz region of northwestern Ethiopia on Saturday, with neither party claiming responsibility for the attack.
And local Ethiopian news reported the killing of large numbers of civilians late last October in the same region by armed groups.
The humanitarian situation
On the other hand, the United Nations and other parties indicated that a humanitarian catastrophe was looming, and said that communications and transport are almost completely cut off in Tigray, where millions of people are at risk from the decrease in the amount of food, fuel and other supplies.
Some 25,000 refugees fled Tigray to neighboring Sudan to escape the fighting, where the refugees, nearly half of them children, are gathering in makeshift tents and under umbrellas, at a time when the Sudanese authorities are rushing to organize the aid distribution.
Sudan’s Commissioner for Refugees, Abdullah Suleiman, called on international organizations and the international community to provide support to the refugees, warning that the situation “is constantly getting worse.”
And a Sudanese government source reported that up to 200,000 Ethiopians can seek refuge in Sudan.
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