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Eritrean involvement in the Tigray War, the Glossary

Since the start of Tigray War in November 2020, the Eritrean government has been heavily involved in the war against the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) in support of the Ethiopian government.^[1]

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Abiy Ahmed

Abiy Ahmed Ali (Abiyi Ahmed Alii; ዐብይ አሕመድ ዐሊ; born 15 August 1976) is an Ethiopian politician who is the current Prime Minister of Ethiopia since 2018 and the leader of the Prosperity Party since 2019.

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Addis Standard

Addis Standard is an Ethiopian monthly social, economic and political news magazine published and distributed by Jakenn Publishing Plc, and was established in February 2011 by Tsedale Lemma, who is also the editor-in-chief of the magazine.

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Agence France-Presse

Agence France-Presse (AFP) is a French international news agency headquartered in Paris, France.

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Al Jazeera Media Network (AJMN; The Peninsula) is a private-media conglomerate headquartered at Wadi Al Sail, Doha, funded in part by the government of Qatar.

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Algiers Agreement (2000)

The Algiers Agreement was a peace agreement between the governments of Eritrea and Ethiopia that was signed on 12 December 2000, at Algiers, Algeria, to formally end the Eritrean–Ethiopian War, a border war fought by the two countries from 1998 to 2000.

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Amnesty International

Amnesty International (also referred to as Amnesty or AI) is an international non-governmental organization focused on human rights, with its headquarters in the United Kingdom.

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Associated Press

The Associated Press (AP) is an American not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.

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Axum massacre

The Axum massacre (alternatively spelled Aksum, also called the Maryam Ts'iyon massacre) was a massacre of about 100–800 civilians that took place in Axum during the Tigray War.

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Badme

Badme (ባድመ) is a town in Gash-Barka region of Eritrea.

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Battle of Tsorona

The Battle of Tsorona was an engagement between the Eritrean and the Ethiopian armies fought near the border town of Tsorona.

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BBC News

BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs in the UK and around the world.

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Bloomberg News

Bloomberg News (originally Bloomberg Business News) is an international news agency headquartered in New York City and a division of Bloomberg L.P. Content produced by Bloomberg News is disseminated through Bloomberg Terminals, Bloomberg Television, Bloomberg Radio, Bloomberg Businessweek, Bloomberg Markets, Bloomberg.com, and Bloomberg's mobile platforms.

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CBC News

CBC News is a division of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation responsible for the news gathering and production of news programs on the corporation's English-language operations, namely CBC Television, CBC Radio, CBC News Network, and CBC.ca.

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Central Zone, Tigray

The Central Zone is a zone in the Tigray Region of Ethiopia.

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Conscription in Eritrea

Conscription in Eritrea requires every able bodied man and woman to serve, ostensibly, for 18 months.

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Debretsion Gebremichael

Debretsion Gebremichael (ደብረጽዮን ገብረሚካኤል, pronunciation) is an Ethiopian politician serving as the chairman of Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF).

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Deportation

Deportation is the expulsion of a person or group of people from a territory.

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Derg

The Derg (or Dergue), officially the Provisional Military Administrative Council (PMAC), was the Marxist–Leninist military dictatorship that ruled Ethiopia, then including present-day Eritrea, from 1974 to 1987, when the military leadership or junta formally "civilianized" the administration but stayed in power until 1991.

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Deutsche Welle

("German Wave"), commonly shortened to DW, is a German public, state-owned international broadcaster funded by the German federal tax budget.

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Eritrea

Eritrea (or; Ertra), officially the State of Eritrea, is a country in the Horn of Africa region of Eastern Africa, with its capital and largest city at Asmara.

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Eritrean Air Force

The Eritrean Air Force (ERAF) is the air service branch of the Eritrean Defence Forces.

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Eritrean Army

The Eritrean Army is the main branch of the Eritrean Defence Forces and is one of the largest armies in Africa.

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Eritrean Defence Forces

The Eritrean Defence Forces (EDF) are the combined military forces of Eritrea composed of three branches: Eritrean Army, Eritrean Air Force and Eritrean Navy.

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Eritrean People's Liberation Front

The Eritrean People's Liberation Front (EPLF), colloquially known as Shabia or HGDEF, was an armed Marxist–Leninist organization that fought for the independence of Eritrea from Ethiopia.

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Eritrean–Ethiopian border conflict

The Eritrean–Ethiopian border conflict was a violent standoff and a proxy conflict between Eritrea and Ethiopia lasting from 1998 to 2018.

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Eritrean–Ethiopian War

The Eritrean–Ethiopian War, also known as the Badme War, was a major armed conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea that took place from May 1998 to June 2000.

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Ethiopia

Ethiopia, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country located in the Horn of Africa region of East Africa.

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Ethiopia–Tigray peace agreement

The Ethiopia–Tigray peace agreement, commonly called the Pretoria Agreement or the Cessation of Hostilities Agreement (CoHA), is a peace treaty between the government of Ethiopia and the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) that was signed 2 November 2022, wherein both parties agreed to a "permanent cessation of hostilities" to end the Tigray War.

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Ethiopian Civil War

The Ethiopian Civil War was a civil war in Ethiopia and present-day Eritrea, fought between the Ethiopian military junta known as the Derg and Ethiopian-Eritrean anti-government rebels from 12 September 1974 to 28 May 1991.

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Ethiopian Human Rights Commission

The Ethiopian Human Rights Commission (EHRC) (የኢትዮጵያ ሰብዓዊ መብቶች ኮሚሽን) is a national human rights institution (NHRI) established by the Ethiopian government.

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Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front

The Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF; translit) was an ethnic federalist political coalition in Ethiopia that existed from 1988 to 2019.

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Fetlework Gebregziabher

Fetlework Gebregziabher (ፈትለወርቅገብረእግዚኣብሄር; ''nom de guerre'' Monjorino; born), is an Ethiopian politician from the Tigray Region and senior member of the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF).

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Filipos Woldeyohannes

Filipos Woldeyohannes (born 1955) is an Eritrean general who has served as Chief of Staff of the Eritrean Defence Forces since March 2014.

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Foreign Policy

Foreign Policy is an American news publication founded in 1970 focused on global affairs, current events, and domestic and international policy.

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Government of Ethiopia

The government of Ethiopia is the federal government of Ethiopia.

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Hailemariam Desalegn

Hailemariam Desalegn Boshe (ኀይለማሪያም ደሳለኝ ቦሼ; born 19 July 1965) is an Ethiopian politician who served as prime minister of Ethiopia from 2012 to 2018.

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Horn of Africa

The Horn of Africa (HoA), also known as the Somali Peninsula, is a large peninsula and geopolitical region in East Africa.

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Human Rights Watch

Human Rights Watch (HRW) is an international non-governmental organization headquartered in New York City that conducts research and advocacy on human rights.

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Insurgency in Ogaden

The Insurgency in Ogaden was an armed conflict that took place from 1992 to 2018.

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International law

International law (also known as public international law and the law of nations) is the set of rules, norms, and standards that states and other actors feel an obligation to obey in their mutual relations and generally do obey.

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Internment

Internment is the imprisonment of people, commonly in large groups, without charges or intent to file charges.

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Isaias Afwerki

Isaias Afwerki (ኢሳይያስ ኣፍወርቂ,; born 2 February 1946) is an Eritrean politician and partisan who has been the first and only president of Eritrea since 1993.

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Libération

(liberation), popularly known as Libé, is a daily newspaper in France, founded in Paris by Jean-Paul Sartre and Serge July in 1973 in the wake of the protest movements of May 1968.

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List of heads of state of Eritrea

Since the establishment of the office of president in 1993, the head of state of Eritrea has been Isaias Afwerki.

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Mark Lowcock

Sir Mark Andrew Lowcock (born 25 July 1962) is a British economist and accountant who served as the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator (the head of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs) between 2017 and 2021.

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Mekelle

Mekelle (መቐለ), or Mekele, is a special zone and capital of the Tigray Region of Ethiopia.

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Nobel Peace Prize

The Nobel Peace Prize (Swedish and Nobels fredspris) is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Swedish industrialist, inventor, and armaments (military weapons and equipment) manufacturer Alfred Nobel, along with the prizes in Chemistry, Physics, Physiology or Medicine, and Literature.

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Northern Command attacks (Ethiopia)

On 3–4 November 2020, forces loyal to the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) launched attacks on the Ethiopian National Defense Force (ENDF) Northern Command headquarters in Mekelle and bases in Adigrat, Agula, Dansha, and Sero in the Tigray Region, marking the beginning of the Tigray War.

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Ogaden National Liberation Front

The Ogaden National Liberation Front (abbreviated ONLF, Jabhadda Wadaniga Xoreynta Ogaadeeniya; translit) is a social and political movement, founded in 1984 to campaign for the right to self-determination for Somalis in the Ogaden or Somali Region of Ethiopia.

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People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia

The People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (PDRE) was a socialist state that existed in Ethiopia and present-day Eritrea from 1987 to 1991.

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Permanent Court of Arbitration

The Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) is a non-UN intergovernmental organization headquartered at the Peace Palace, in The Hague, Netherlands.

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Politics of Eritrea

The politics of Eritrea and the government of Eritrea take place in the framework of a single-party presidential republican totalitarian dictatorship.

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Prime Minister of Ethiopia

The prime minister of Ethiopia is the head of government and chief executive of Ethiopia.

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Proxy war

In political science, a proxy war is as an armed conflict fought between two belligerents, wherein one belligerent is a non-state actor supported by an external third-party power.

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Quartz (publication)

Quartz is an American English language news website owned by G/O Media.

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Resignation of Hailemariam Desalegn

In the face of widespread protests against the government, Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn resigned from office on 15 February 2018, becoming the first politician to resign from office in modern Ethiopian history.

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Reuters

Reuters is a news agency owned by Thomson Reuters.

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Second Afar insurgency

The Second Afar insurgency was an insurgency in the Afar Region of Ethiopia and the Southern Red Sea Region of Eritrea (also known as Dankalia), waged by various Afar rebel groups.

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Sky News

Sky News is a British free-to-air television news channel and organisation.

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Somali civil war (2009–present)

The Somali civil war (2009–present) is the ongoing phase of the Somali civil war which is concentrated in southern and central Somalia.

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Sudan

Sudan, officially the Republic of the Sudan, is a country in Northeast Africa.

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Tadesse Werede

Lieutenant General Tadesse Werede Tesfay (ታደሰ ወረደ (ወዲ ወረደ).) is Commander-in Chief of the Tigray Defense Forces.

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The Christian Science Monitor

The Christian Science Monitor (CSM), commonly known as The Monitor, is a nonprofit news organization that publishes daily articles both in electronic format and a weekly print edition.

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The Globe and Mail

The Globe and Mail is a Canadian newspaper printed in five cities in western and central Canada.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Washington Post

The Washington Post, locally known as "the Post" and, informally, WaPo or WP, is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C., the national capital.

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Tigray Defense Forces

The Tigray Defense Forces (TDF; italic), colloquially called the Tigray Army (italic), is a paramilitary group located in the Tigray region of Ethiopia. Eritrean involvement in the Tigray War and Tigray Defense Forces are Tigray War.

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Tigray People's Liberation Front

The Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF; lit), also called the Tigrayan People's Liberation Front, is a left-wing ethnic nationalist, paramilitary group, and the former ruling party of Ethiopia.

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Tigray Region

The Tigray Region (or simply Tigray; officially the Tigray National Regional State) is the northernmost regional state in Ethiopia.

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Tigray War

The Tigray War was an armed conflict that lasted from 3 November 2020 to 3 November 2022.

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Torture

Torture is the deliberate infliction of severe pain or suffering on a person for reasons including punishment, extracting a confession, interrogation for information, intimidating third parties, or entertainment.

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Tsadkan Gebretensae

Tsadkan Gebretensae (ጻድቃን ገብረትንሣኤ; born c.1953) is an Ethiopian former military officer.

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United Arab Emirates

The United Arab Emirates (UAE), or simply the Emirates, is a country in West Asia, in the Middle East.

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United Nations

The United Nations (UN) is a diplomatic and political international organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and serve as a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations.

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Vice News

Vice News (stylized as VICE News) is Vice Media's alternative current affairs channel, producing daily documentary essays and video through its website and YouTube channel.

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Voice of America

Voice of America (VOA or VoA) is an international radio broadcasting state media agency owned by the United States of America.

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Vox (website)

Vox is an American news and opinion website owned by Vox Media.

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War in Somalia (2006–2009)

The Ethiopian invasion of Somalia, also known as the Ethiopian occupation of Somalia or the Ethiopian intervention in the Somali Civil War, was an armed conflict that lasted from late 2006 to early 2009.

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Wartime sexual violence

Wartime sexual violence is rape or other forms of sexual violence committed by combatants during an armed conflict, war, or military occupation often as spoils of war, but sometimes, particularly in ethnic conflict, the phenomenon has broader sociological motives.

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Yahoo! News

Yahoo! News is a news website that originated as an internet-based news aggregator by Yahoo!.

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1993 Eritrean independence referendum

An independence referendum was held in Eritrea, at the time part of Ethiopia, between 23 and 25 April 1993.

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2014–2016 Oromo protests

The 2014–2016 Oromo protests were a series of protests and resistance first sparked on 25 April 2014.

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2018 Eritrea–Ethiopia summit

The 2018 Eritrea–Ethiopia summit (also 2018 Eritrea–Ethiopia peace summit) was a bilateral summit that took place on 8–9 July 2018 in Asmara, Eritrea, between Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki and Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and officials from the two countries. Eritrean involvement in the Tigray War and 2018 Eritrea–Ethiopia summit are Eritrea–Ethiopia relations.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eritrean_involvement_in_the_Tigray_War

Also known as Eritrea tigray war, Eritrean intervention in the Tigray War.

, Permanent Court of Arbitration, Politics of Eritrea, Prime Minister of Ethiopia, Proxy war, Quartz (publication), Resignation of Hailemariam Desalegn, Reuters, Second Afar insurgency, Sky News, Somali civil war (2009–present), Sudan, Tadesse Werede, The Christian Science Monitor, The Globe and Mail, The Guardian, The Independent, The New York Times, The Washington Post, Tigray Defense Forces, Tigray People's Liberation Front, Tigray Region, Tigray War, Torture, Tsadkan Gebretensae, United Arab Emirates, United Nations, Vice News, Voice of America, Vox (website), War in Somalia (2006–2009), Wartime sexual violence, Yahoo! News, 1993 Eritrean independence referendum, 2014–2016 Oromo protests, 2018 Eritrea–Ethiopia summit.

Eritrean involvement in the Tigray War, the Glossary

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See also

2020s in Eritrea

2020s in Ethiopia

2020s in international relations

2020s in military history

Eritrea–Ethiopia relations

Military intervention

Tigray War

References