Although the rebels announced their retreat back to Tigray on December 20, no official peace talks have been launched yet. "(It's been) difficult to know with confidence what is happening on the ground – a feature of this conflict from the beginning," Joseph Siegle of the African Centre for Strategic Studies told AFP Fact Check. Atrocities deniedOne example is a Facebook page called Ethiopia Current Issues Fact Check, a self-declared "government website". AFP Fact Check also debunked a post first published on Twitter falsely claiming that the African Union had asked its staff to leave Ethiopia. Role of diasporaExperts note that Ethiopia's diaspora has played a key role in promoting disinformation for both sides.

Source: Ethiopian News December 22, 2021 14:31 UTC