Like thousands of others, he has been displaced by Ethiopia’s months-long civil war. “They set our crops on fire, then they started burning the homes,” said Gebru Habtom, a farmer in his 40s from the village of Debre Harmaz in Ethiopia. Eritrean soldiers first entered Ethiopia’s civil war to fight alongside the Ethiopian army against forces of Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front, known as TPLF, or the governing party in the region. Satellite imagery from central Tigray’s Eritrean border, however, points to something far more nefarious. Like Debre Harmaz, the remote farming community of Adi Mendi, located three miles from Ethiopia’s border, also appears to have been destroyed.

Source: Ethiopian News February 27, 2021 18:56 UTC