MINILIK SALSAWI

Satellite images show the mobilization this month of military forces in towns on either side of Ethiopia’s northern border with Eritrea, a private US company said on Wednesday. Reuters could not independently verify the contents of the images showing reported military activity in the aftermath of the breakdown on August 24 of a five-month ceasefire in Ethiopia’s Tigray region.   Tigray forces have battled Ethiopia’s federal army and its allies, including Eritrean troops and fighters from neighboring Ethiopian regions, over the course of a nearly two-year war. Images collected on September 26 show military forces, vehicles and artillery positions in the town of Shiraro, near Tigray's northern border with Eritrea, according to Maxar Technologies Inc, which collects and publishes satellite imagery of the region. The images from Eritrea were taken on September 19 and show the deployment of heavy weaponry in the town of Serha, near ...

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  When we celebrate the Feast of the Cross, it should be by solving our problems with reconciliation and forgiveness - His Holiness Abune Mathias Abune Matias, Patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, called for "fighting with reconciliation, wrongdoing with forgiveness". Abune Mathias, in his speech during the celebration of Demera festival in Addis Ababa Cross Square today, conveyed the message "let us pray together" for peace, love and unity to be removed from the conflict in Ethiopia. Abune Matias preached the importance of reconciliation in his speech when the Demera Cross was celebrated in the presence of followers of the faith, the Federal Government and Addis Ababa city government officials. Abune Mathias said in his speech that human beings can live by "reconciliation through reconciliation, injustice through forgiveness, poverty through development, infidelity through religion." Abune Matias said, "There is no better option th...