@ZekuZelalem@dair-community.social
2026-05-08 06:59 UTC
So the other day, Reuters released this report based on a leaked document: that the US was about to lift 5 year old sanctions that it had placed on Eritrea. The Biden admin had sanctioned Eritrea in 2021 for its ethnic cleansing campaign during the Tigray war.
The US is clearly getting in on the strait craze, and has identified proximity to the Bab El Mandeb as being of critical importance.
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/us-lift-eritrea-sanctions-red-sea-tensions-reshape-alliances-document-says-2026-05-05/
Replies (1)
-
@ZekuZelalem@dair-community.social 2026-05-08 07:01
To get an idea of the seriousness of the atrocities Eritrea committed back then, my investigation from February 2021 for VICE World News, on the ethnic cleansing campaign and civilian massacres it carried out. Three years later, legal scholars would deem these atrocities and others to have been genocide. https://www.vice.com/en/article/they-started-burning-the-homes-ethiopians-say-their-towns-are-being-razed-in-ethnic-cleansing-campaign/