There were no details on how officials with Eritrea, one of the world’s most secretive countries, responded. Eritrea has said little publicly about the conflict in Tigray as Ethiopian soldiers fight forces loyal to the now-fugitive Tigray regional leaders who once dominated Ethiopia’s government for nearly three decades. The Tigray leaders were marginalized after Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed took office in 2018, and each side regards the other as illegitimate. Eritrea remains an enemy of the fugitive Tigray leaders after a two-decade border war that ended under Abiy. The situation is “deteriorating every day, every minute,” the president of the Ethiopian Red Cross Society, Ato Abera Tola, told reporters on Thursday as Red Cross entities appealed for more financial support.

Source: Ethiopian News January 28, 2021 17:25 UTC