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Horn of Africa history | military studies | archivist
Somaliweyn
Joined March 2020
✍️Wrote a piece on the morbidly fascinating and oft forgotten 1998-2000 war between 🇪🇷 & 🇪🇹 If interested in understanding that war, the huge impact it had on the Horn of Africa and what is currently at stake with rapidly escalating military tensions over Assab, check it out!
Nearly 30 years ago, a cataclysmic war fueled by coastal ambitions reshaped the Horn. Today, its ghosts have returned as Ethiopia and Eritrea again stand on the brink. ✍️ Abdimalik Ali Warsame https://t.co/DO8owXR15h
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Boosting again. This essay really shows the roots of the Tigray genocide. Abiy was one of countless Oromo peasant soldiers sent as racially despised cannon fodder by Tigrayan officers. 20 yrs later, Abiy returned to Tigray w an unrelenting bloodlust
✍️Wrote a piece on the morbidly fascinating and oft forgotten 1998-2000 war between 🇪🇷 & 🇪🇹 If interested in understanding that war, the huge impact it had on the Horn of Africa and what is currently at stake with rapidly escalating military tensions over Assab, check it out!
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Difficult to fathom just how many will die if we end up with a reprise of the horror that was the 1998-2000 and 2020-2022 wars all wrapped up into one catastrophic armed conflict. It easily can, and likely will, exceede a million dead.
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With last week’s ENDF drone attack on TPLF units that struck Addis’s Tigrayan proxy force, it’s crystal clear any conflict between Addis and Asmara will be far messier than the Badme War...and increasingly looking like Tigray itself likely will become the main theater of war.
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The serious escalation in bellicose rhetoric from Addis Ababa over the course of autumn really does make it feel like we are rapidly approaching the true precipice of war between 🇪🇹 and 🇪🇷 this winter
News: #Ethiopia accuses #Eritrea of territorial violations, armed-group support, reaffirms Assab as strategic priority, warns military restraint is limited Ethiopia has accused Eritrea of supporting armed groups operating inside its territory and violating its sovereignty, while
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Somali women protesting for the release of Angela Davis [1972]
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Excerpt from a CIA report published the following month observing the deployment of Israeli military advisors among the vanguard of Ethiopian occupation troops in the Ogaden [1973]
Throwback to 1973 when Emperor Selassie’s regime was begging the Israelis for increased military support in order to prevent the liberation of the Western Somalis and the consequent collapse of the imperial government.
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Excerpt from 🇮🇱 Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion's 1960 speech during the graduation ceremony of 🇪🇹 paratroopers at Tel Nof (the oldest and main air force base in Israel): "...we know that all help provided to you is also help for us."
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Muslim women fighting under the Eritrean People's Liberation Front holding their Kalashnikovs and children [1978]
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Muslim women fighting under the Eritrean People's Liberation Front holding their Kalashnikovs and children [1978]
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"But a covert proxy war between Ethiopia, Eritrea and their allies has, in effect, already begun. It needs worryingly little to explode into the open." https://t.co/Kabzvzz4pp
economist.com
Conflict in Tigray could balloon into a regional conflagration
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Is Ethiopia aiming to intimidate Eritrea? Short answer: Yes .
dw.com
Ethiopia's dream of a seaside port is fueling fears of war in the Horn of Africa. Some even fear an imminent Ethiopian invasion of neighboring Eritrea.
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The Pretoria agreement which ended the fighting between the TPLF and Ethiopian govt is on the ropes right now. The govt has hit TPLF forces in a drone strike, shortly after the TPLF reportedly carried out an incursion into the neighbouring Afar state. https://t.co/zedDTOqhWr
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ህዝባዊ ወያነ ሓርነት ትግራይ (ህወሓት) የኢትዮጵያ መንግሥት የድሮን ጥቃት በመፈጸም በትግራይ ኃይሎች አባላት ላይ ጉዳት ማድረሱን ገለጸ። ህወሓት አርብ ማምሻውን ባወጣው መግለጫ የትግራይ ክልል ከአፋር ክልል ጋር በሚዋሰንበት አካባቢ አርብ ጥቅምት 28/2018 ዓ.ም. በተፈጸመው የድሮን ጥቃት ዝርዝሩን ባይገልጽም...
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Gripping war history that serves as an essential background on the grim prospect of the resumption of mass-scale conflict between the Ethiopian federal government, Eritrea, and Tigray. Some of the sharpest and most useful analysis I’ve read in a while.
geeska.com
Nearly 30 years ago, a cataclysmic war fueled by coastal ambitions reshaped the Horn. Today, its ghosts have returned as Ethiopia and Eritrea again stand on the brink.
✍️Wrote a piece on the morbidly fascinating and oft forgotten 1998-2000 war between 🇪🇷 & 🇪🇹 If interested in understanding that war, the huge impact it had on the Horn of Africa and what is currently at stake with rapidly escalating military tensions over Assab, check it out!
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There has been a lot of concern about what an Eritrea/Ethiopia war today could look like and how deadly it could potentially be. @walaalwhoops wrote this excellent history of the time they actually fought to give some indication.
Nearly 30 years ago, a cataclysmic war fueled by coastal ambitions reshaped the Horn. Today, its ghosts have returned as Ethiopia and Eritrea again stand on the brink. ✍️ Abdimalik Ali Warsame https://t.co/DO8owXR15h
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Read this excellent new piece by Somali historian and archivist @walaalwhoops
Nearly 30 years ago, a cataclysmic war fueled by coastal ambitions reshaped the Horn. Today, its ghosts have returned as Ethiopia and Eritrea again stand on the brink. ✍️ Abdimalik Ali Warsame https://t.co/DO8owXR15h
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Anyone interested in learning about the 1998-2000 Eri-Ethio border war & how it shaped the trajectories of both countries should give this article a read. Its easily the most accurate and comprehensive commentary I’ve read on this topic from an outsiders perspective.
Nearly 30 years ago, a cataclysmic war fueled by coastal ambitions reshaped the Horn. Today, its ghosts have returned as Ethiopia and Eritrea again stand on the brink. ✍️ Abdimalik Ali Warsame https://t.co/DO8owXR15h
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I learn something new everyday...🫨
✍️Wrote a piece on the morbidly fascinating and oft forgotten 1998-2000 war between 🇪🇷 & 🇪🇹 If interested in understanding that war, the huge impact it had on the Horn of Africa and what is currently at stake with rapidly escalating military tensions over Assab, check it out!
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Poca gente conoce la guerra que enfrentó a Eritrea y Etiopía en 1998-2000. En solo dos años murieron entre 100k y 300k personas, la mayoría soldados lanzados en masa contra trincheras enemigas al más puro estilo de la Primera Guerra Mundial. Un horror.
✍️Wrote a piece on the morbidly fascinating and oft forgotten 1998-2000 war between 🇪🇷 & 🇪🇹 If interested in understanding that war, the huge impact it had on the Horn of Africa and what is currently at stake with rapidly escalating military tensions over Assab, check it out!
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