Rebel group warns foreign nationals from travelling to the Afar region of Ethiopia ARDUF PRESS RELEASE A heavy fighting that raged for several weeks between TPLF forces assisted by Afar Liyu Hayle started a military campaign to dislodge the ARDUF (UGUUGUMOO) fighters from their bases in the mountain areas of Mogorros Afar Region.
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The German national was in a group of tourists who were visiting the Erta Ale volcano BY ELIAS MESERET | AFP The German Foreign Ministry confirms that a German national has been killed in an attack in northeastern Ethiopia. Ethiopia’s state-run news agency says Sunday’s attack occurred near a volcanic lake at Erta Ale in […]
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By African Intelligence, The traditional Issa elder Moustapha Mohamed Ibrahim, based in Dire Dawa, has drawn the wrath of Addis Ababa. The creation of three kebele (small administrative entities) administered by the Issa within the Afar Regional State is a cause of ongoing concern for the Ethiopian authorities. During his official visit to Djibouti on […]
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By The Indian Ocean Newsletter, THE Ethiopian government authorities are taking the mainly Afar ARDUF armed rebel movement’s opposition to the creation last month of three special kebele (small administrative entities) in the Afar Regional State very seriously. In response to threats issued by ARDUF’s leader in Asmara, Mussa Ibrahim, to attack the transport routes, […]
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By ARDUF, THE Afar-Issa conflict is no longer an encounter about access to grazing lands and water resources between two related pastoral communities. It is no longer about the raiding and counter-raiding of animals (camels, cows and goats) as war booty. It is not even being inflamed between the two traditional pastoral groups in the […]
Continue ReadingTPLF led Ethiopian government is tactically at war with the Afar people in order to realize their dream of ‘Greater Tigray” by incorporating a chunk of Afar territory – ARDUF By ARDUF, The Afar Revolutionary Democratic Unity Front (ARDUF) through its Press Release issued on Tuesday (27) has denied the existence of any “attacks” carried out by the Ethiopian government forces […]
Continue ReadingThe following is a briefing made by President Isaias Afwerki on ERI-TV today (25) concerning Ethiopia’s recents attack inside Ertrea and other related issues in the region
Continue ReadingThere is a limit for everything. If the “midget” falsely believed that it can continue with its attacks by violating Eritrea’s territorial integrity and get away with it, then it thought wrong! By Sophia Tesfamariam, On 15 March 2012, Shimeles Kemal, the spokesperson for the minority regime in Ethiopia announced to the world that Ethiopian defense forces had […]
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