NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Eritrea is mobilizing its armed forces and appears to be sending them to Ethiopia to aid its neighbor's war in the Tigray region, according to activists and international authorities. Eyewitnesses in Eritrea said that people including students and public servants are being rounded up across the nation. Rights groups say the practice, which lasts indefinitely in most cases, is driving thousands of Eritrean youths into exile. Eritrean forces fought on the side of Ethiopian federal troops in the war in Ethiopia's Tigray region, which shares a border with Eritrea, when that conflict broke out in November 2020. Eritrean forces were implicated in some of the worst atrocities committed in the war — charges they deny.

Source: Ethiopian News September 18, 2022 11:42 UTC