Ethiopian govt forces enter key Tigray town near Eritrea border • FRANCE 24 English

Many of the so called refugees/asylum seekers regularly go &quot;home&quot; on vacation.<br><br>Problem is, South African black peolpe are just behind on education and entrepeneurial expertise.<br><br>One might say, by preserving their culture and their homelands, we have kept them in the stone age.<br><br>Sometimes we have to de-clutter even culture.

By David Yeh and Eri Pdx
<br>The strategic alliance between UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan and Ethiopian Colonel Abiy Ahmed who critics describe as the head of a Potemkin ruling party built around militarized rule is facing intensifying condemnation from human rights groups and international observers who accuse both leaders of direct complicity in regional conflicts.
<br>What is officially presented as a military, strategic and economic partnership formalized through bilateral MoUs, defense cooperation agreements, joint investments, and regular consultations on security in the Horn of Africa and the Red Sea corridor is, according to its critics, a war enabling pact.
<br>The UAE provided extensive financial backing, diplomatic cover at the UN and in regional forums, and decisive military support to the Abiy government during the Tigray war and subsequent conflicts in Amhara and Oromia. That support allegedly included the supply of armed combat drones, including Chinese made Wing Loong systems operated from UAE linked bases, surveillance technology, and logistical airlifts. Human rights monitors say this enabled a campaign of extensive airstrikes on civilian areas, indiscriminate shelling, mass detention, and a communications blackout that activists have labeled a humanitarian catastrophe and alleged war crimes, with hundreds of thousands killed and millions displaced.
<br>The same cooperation model has now extended to Sudan, according to investigators and advocacy groups. The two leaders are accused of coordinating support for the Rapid Support Forces [RSF] paramilitary group in its war against the Sudanese Armed Forces. Rights groups allege this has included financial channels routed through regional networks, logistical and weapons transfers, and diplomatic backing that has helped sustain the RSF&#39;s campaign, which the UN, US, and multiple NGOs have accused of mass atrocities against civilians, ethnic cleansing in Darfur, systematic sexual violence, and the deliberate destruction of civilian infrastructure.
<br>No formal charges have been brought against either leader in any international court or tribunal yet, and both governments deny any wrongdoing. But the documented pattern of support amounts to aiding and abetting atrocities, and that both Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed and Abiy Ahmed should be investigated, charged, indicted and convicted under international humanitarian law.