One Twitter account, "Tigray in Arabic", has amassed about 40,000 followers in just a few months. "Our mastery of Arabic and our Islamic culture has helped us address the Arab and Muslim world to make our cause known," Habashi said. On December 20, the TPLF announced they had withdrawn from the Amhara and Afar regions to their Tigray stronghold. Habashi boasted that the Tigrayan media push meant that Arabic speakers were "becoming more and more interested in what is happening in Ethiopia". "In the past, you needed Tigray, and it is because of this that I am a Muslim today," proclaimed one activist on YouTube.

Source: Ethiopian News December 29, 2021 04:01 UTC