💭 Tiffany Haddish Gives Her Support to Will Smith After He Slaps Chris Rock
Actress Tiffany Haddish – who is of Eritrean/Tigrayan-Ethiopian descent – has offered what may be the most bizarre reaction to Will Smith’s physical assault on Chris Rock at the Oscars on Sunday, calling it the “most beautiful thing” she’s ever seen.
In a post-Oscars interview at the Governors Ball, Tiffany Haddish praised Will Smith for defending his wife against Chris Rock’s joke.
“When I saw a black man stand up for his wife. That meant so much to me,” Haddish told People. “As a woman, who has been unprotected, for someone to say like, ‘Keep my wife’s name out your mouth, leave my wife alone,’ that’s what your husband is supposed to do, right? Protect you. And that meant the world to me.
She added: “And maybe the world might not like how it went down, but for me, it was the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen because it made me believe that there are still men out there that love and care about their women, their wives.”
Will Smith stunned Oscar viewers on Sunday when he stormed the stage at the Dolby Theatre and struck Chris Rock in the face. Rock, who was presenting the award for documentary feature, had just told a joke about Smith’s wife, saying her bald head would make her a good fit for “G.I. Jane 2.”
After Smith took his seat, he appeared to mouth the words: “Keep my wife’s name out of your fucking mouth!”
The altercation had Oscar viewers wondering if the moment was real or a staged event that ABC and the Oscars concocted to juice social media engagement and its flagging viewership.
Smith apologized later in the evening when he won the Oscar for his performance in King Richard.
“I want to apologize to the Academy, I want to apologize to all my fellow nominees,” he said during his tearful acceptance speech, without elaborating.
💭 Evil Isaias Afewerki’s Useful Idiot Tiffany Haddish Cries after Stuck in Antichrist Turkey | Sign of The Times
💭 The Secrets Behind Will Smith Smacking Chris Rock | Jada Jada Jeddah
💭 ዊል ስሚዝ ክሪስ ሮክን ከመምታት በስተጀርባ ያለው ምስጢር
🔥 Will Smith smacks Chris Rock on stage at the Oscars
💭 Jump on the bandwagon to look good – virtue signaling hypocrites. There’s a Christian genocide in Tigray, Ethiopia – No one cares about it except The Almighty God Egziabher.
☆ Crow (Oromo) Making Two Cats ( Tigray an & Ahmara) Fight
ቍራው ወንድማማቾችን የሚያባለበት ዘመን ላይ ነን። ለቍራው ወዮለት!
💭 Scientists Investigate Why Crows Are So Playful
New experiments reveal a complex link between crow play and tool use. Indirect learning
What this suggests, say the researchers in a recent paper for Royal Society Open Science, is that the link between play and tool use is indirect. The two are clearly related, because the birds who played with tools were much better at using those tools in a food-finding task. But there was also huge variability between the birds, suggesting that they were not all getting the same thing out of play.
🛑 Missile Attack on Jeddah in The Middle of The F1 Saudi Arabian GP
My Note: Saudi Arabia – September 2018 – on Ethiopia’s New 2011 Year’s week
In the presence of their cruel Saudi babysitters, the two evil traitors, Abiy Ahmed Ali of Ethiopia & Isaias Afewerki of Eritrea signed a genocide pact against Christians of Northern Ethiopia.
‘Two weeks ago, Babylon Saudi Arabia executed 81 prisoners. This weekend, F1 hypocrites who just told us – “This is probably the safest place you can be in Saudi Arabia at the moment. That is why we are racing.” — will open Aladin’s rose water bottles in one of the most violent and inhumane nations of the planet. If true, a speedy recovery to Vettel – but I’ve got this feeling that he is not interested in racing either in Bahrain or in Saudi Arabia. It’s a disgrace that F1 is present in Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, Azerbaijan. Frankly speaking Sochi is safer and more humane than Jeddah and Saudi Arabia at the moment – yet concerning Sochi and Russia everyone was faster than Lewis Hamilton to grab the moral high ground. You’ll know if someone is on his high horse, because he will behave as though he’s superior to everyone around him, almost like a haughty king riding his horse past his lowly subjects.
💭 Ethiopia Detained, Abused Tigray ans Deported From Saudi: HRW
💭 Boris Johnson Going From ‘Dictator to Dictator’ Visiting Mass Murderer Saudi Arabia & Selling Chelsea to Them
💭 Yemen’s Houthi rebels say they hit several areas inside the Kingdom on Friday.
One was near the Formula One circuit in Jeddah, where the Saudi Arabia Grand Prix will be held on Sunday.
The Saudi coalition has launched air strikes in Sanaa and Hodeidah in retaliation against attacks on its oil facilities.
👉 Courtesy: Al Jazeera
💭 My Note: Saudi Arabia – September 2018 – on Ethiopia’s New 2011 Year’s week
💭 In the presence of their cruel Saudi babysitters, the two evil traitors, Abiy Ahmed Ali of Ethiopia & Isaias Afewerki of Eritrea signed a genocide pact against Christians of Northern Ethiopia.
😈 The Harlot of Babylon 😈
Who can better fit this description than Saudi Arabia (Mecca) because the Muslim god Allah originated as LiL from Sumer, again the Middle East, that later became iL and then it was exported from Babylon by Nabounidus in the 6th century BC to Saudi Arabia, where the Arabs started worshiping Allah long befor Muhammad was born. The god is known by different names in different regions, the root of which is LiL, enLiL, Sin, iL and Bel. “The Controller of the Nigh,” had the crescent moon as his emblem, which became the primary religious symbol of Islam and many other false religions. In Arabia he was also known as hu-bal or ha-baal. In 637 AD, a new era began when the ‘Saudi Arabians conquered Mesopotamia whereby “Babylon” then became part of the Arab-Islamic Empire. The worship of the moon god “Sin„ was widespread and common during the time of Abraham. In the Bible, Abraham was asked to leave Ur of the Chaldeans, where the moon god Sin was worshiped and told to migrate to Canaan and worship Yahweh, The True God, instead.
❖❖❖ [Jeremiah 51:24–25] ❖❖❖
“And I will repay Babylon And all the inhabitants of Chaldea For all the evil they have done In Zion in your sight,” says the Lord. “Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain, Who destroys all the earth,” says the Lord. “And I will stretch out My hand against you, Roll you down from the rocks, And make you a burnt mountain.
A mountain is an allegoric kingdom, God’s wrath is not going to burn just one mountain in Iraq, or else there would be little point in that wrath burning an empty mountain. He is going to destroy the whole Islamic kingdom with Muslim people living in it; we do need to think about this.
👏 A blessing in disguise for Ethiopian Zionists: Saudi Arabia is about to deport 300,000 Ethiopian migrants from its evil kingdom.
❖❖❖ [Jeremiah 51:6] ❖❖❖
“Flee from Babylon! Run for your lives! Do not be destroyed because of her sins. It is time for the Lord’s vengeance; he will repay her what she deserves.
“And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory. And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird. For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies.”
My Note: Saudi Arabia – September 2018 – on Ethiopia’s New 2011 Year’s week
In the presence of their cruel Saudi babysitters, the two evil traitors, Abiy Ahmed Ali of Ethiopia & Isaias Afewerki of Eritrea signed a genocide pact against Christians of Northern Ethiopia.
💭 Boris Johnson Going From ‘Dictator to Dictator’ Visiting Mass Murderer Saudi Arabia & Selling Chelsea to Them
‘Two weeks ago, Babylon Saudi Arabia executed 81 prisoners. This weekend, F1 hypocrites who just told us – “This is probably the safest place you can be in Saudi Arabia at the moment. That is why we are racing.” — will open Aladin’s rose water bottles in one of the most violent and inhumane nations of the planet. If true, a speedy recovery to Vettel – but I’ve got this feeling that he is not interested in racing either in Bahrain or in Saudi Arabia. It’s a disgrace that F1 is present in Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, Azerbaijan. Frankly speaking Sochi is safer and more humane than Jeddah and Saudi Arabia at the moment – yet concerning Sochi and Russia everyone was faster than Lewis Hamilton to grab the moral high ground. You’ll know if someone is on his high horse, because he will behave as though he’s superior to everyone around him, almost like a haughty king riding his horse past his lowly subjects.
💭 Ethiopia Detained, Abused Tigray ans Deported From Saudi: HRW
💭 Fireball Consumes Oil Facility as Houthis Launch Terror Campaign ‘Deep’ in Saudi Arabia
Formula 1 teams and drivers have been told that the Saudi Arabian GP is continuing as planned following a fire at an oil depot close to the circuit, which Yemen’s Houthi rebels claim was an attack by the group.
A large and very expressive black smoke cloud could be seen from the F1 track towards the end of first practice, and Max Verstappen reported on team radio that he could smell “burning” from the cockpit of his Red Bull car.
Practice continued as normal, though there was a 15-minute delay to the start of second practice as drivers and team principals met with F1 president Stefano Domenicali and the FIA’s Mohammed Ben Sulayem.
A fiery explosion lit up the skyline over the Saudi Arabian city of Jeddah on Friday morning, clearly visible from the F1 racing track where the Saudi Arabia Grand Prix is set to take place Sunday.
The Iran-backed Houthi insurgents of Yemen issued a statement claiming they have launched a series of attacks “deep” into Saudi territory.
The fireball appeared to erupt from the North Jeddah Bulk Plant, which stores nearly a quarter of Saudi Arabia’s stockpile of fuel for ground and air vehicles, as well as the fuel supply for a crucial water desalination plant near Jeddah. The fuel storage facility was one of the primary targets in a wave of Houthi terrorist attacks last weekend but sustained only minor damage, according to Saudi officials.
Saudi state television on Friday reported attacks on water tanks in the town of Dharan and an electrical substation close to the Yemeni border.
The Houthi-controlled al-Masirah satellite news channel in Yemen said on Friday that “more details” would soon be released about the purported attacks on Saudi Arabian civilian targets but did not explicitly claim responsibility for the Jeddah explosion.
The Houthis were classified as a foreign terrorist organization by the Trump administration, but the designation was rescinded by President Joe Biden soon after he took office. The Saudi government warned this week that continued Houthi attacks on their oil infrastructure could hinder their ability to supply oil during the worldwide fuel crisis caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Update, 1:15 p.m. EST: Houthi military spokesman Yahya Sarea claimed responsibility for a “missile” attack on Jeddah, plus drone attacks on the Saudi refineries at Ras Tanura and Rabigh. Sarea said the Houthis also attacked targets in the Saudi capital city of Riyadh.
Update, 1:20 p.m. EST: Saudi state media quoted a spokesman for the military coalition against the Yemen insurgency who said a ballistic missile and ten bomb-laden drones were intercepted on Friday. The Houthi weapons were aimed at several different cities. The coalition said relatively minor damage was inflicted on several targets, plus collateral damage to civilian vehicles and residences, but none of it was severe, and there was no loss of life.
💭 Iran-Backed Houthis Attack Saudi Oil Facilities, Slowing Refinery Output amid Global Crisis
The Iran-backed Houthi insurgents of Yemen, delisted as terrorists by President Joe Biden as one of his first acts in office, launched a massive terrorist strike on Saudi oil facilities and water desalination plants on Sunday.
Saudi officials said the Houthi attack targeted two petroleum distribution terminals, a natural gas plant, and an oil refinery. The targets were spread between several cities, including the Saudi capital of Riyadh and the major Red Sea port of Jeddah.
The Saudi military coalition said the Houthi attack involved cruise missiles made in Iran. The coalition said its air defenses intercepted many of the Houthi weapons, but Saudi state media carried photos and videos of fires and explosive damage from the missiles that made it through.
The coalition also charged the Houthis with launching at least 106 explosive-laden boats in an effort to compromise freedom of navigation in the Red Sea. The coalition said it was able to destroy most of these bomb boats, “protecting shipping lines and global trade.”
One of the Houthi missile strikes started a “limited fire” in a tank at the Jeddah distribution plant for Saudi Aramco, the national oil company. The fire was brought under control without loss of life
Another strike damaged a natural gas plant and refinery in the city of Yasref. The Saudi Energy Ministry said on Sunday the assault on Yasref “has led to a temporary reduction in the refinery’s production, which will be compensated for from the inventory.”
Aramco officials said the attacks did not cause enough damage to seriously disrupt gas and petroleum supplies, but the state-run Saudi news agency SPA on Monday quoted a Foreign Ministry source that said the Saudis would not be held responsible for disruptions to the already-stressed world oil market caused by Houthi attacks.
The Foreign Ministry source warned that continued drone and missile attacks “will affect the kingdom’s production capacity and its ability to fulfill its obligations, which undoubtedly threatens the security and stability of energy supplies to global markets.”
The Houthi attack – a major escalation of the insurgency’s conflict with Saudi Arabia, and one of the heaviest salvos it has launched against Saudi targets since the beginning of the Yemeni civil war – came after several days of intense diplomacy in Oman, where U.N. special envoy Hans Grundberg met with Houthi negotiators to discuss “a possible truce during the holy month of Ramadan.” Ramadan begins on April 2 this year.
White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan condemned the Houthi strikes on Sunday as “terrorist attacks” and complained about the insurgency constantly using such violent actions to sabotage peace negotiations.
“These attacks reportedly targeted water treatment facilities as well as oil and natural gas infrastructure. The Houthis launch these terrorist attacks with enabling by Iran, which supplies them with missile and UAV components, training, and expertise. This is done in violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions prohibiting the import of weapons into Yemen,” Sullivan said.
“Saudi Arabia and the Yemeni Government have endorsed multiple U.N. calls for ceasefires and de-escalation over the last year. The Houthis have rejected these calls, responding instead with new offensives in Yemen and terrorist acts, such as those launched against Saudi Arabia last night,” he complained.
The Houthis were listed as terrorists by the Trump administration, but this designation was rescinded in the early days of the Biden administration, which has frequently complained about Houthi terrorism over the ensuing year.
The Biden administration has stubbornly resisted calls to relist the Houthis as a foreign terrorist organization, including advice from some White House officials. Resistance to reclassifying the Houthis as terrorists ostensbily flows from human rights advocates who fear the enraged insurgents would interfere with the delivery of humanitarian aid, but some critical observers believe the Biden administration is also worried about disrupting its nuclear deal negotiations with the Houthis’ patrons in Iran.
Competing regional powers have quietly backed Abiy Ahmed in Ethiopia’s deadly conflict
👉 From The New Arab
The war that started in November 2020 as a conflict between the Ethiopian Federal Government and the Tigray Regional Government has turned the country into an arena where many regional and international powers are active.
Like a Pandora’s box suddenly opened, the conflict has borne many geopolitical surprises, but one of its most important ironies is the reported use of drones and weapons supplied by competing powers in the Middle East, who seem to have agreed on their support for Ethiopia’s government.
U A E, the first player
The United Arab Emirates (U A E) has intervened in the Ethiopian war since it began, with leaders from the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) accusing Abu Dhabi of targeting Tigray an forces in November 2020 with drones stationed at its Assab military base in Eritrea.
In the wake of the Ethiopian withdrawal in the face of the advancing Tigray an forces in the summer of 2021, an Emirati air bridge supporting the government was monitored. This comprised more than 90 flights between the two countries in the period between September and November 2021.
Satellite images identified Emirati drones at Harar Meda Airport in Ethiopia and at a military base in Deirdawa in the east of the country.
The U A E’s intervention was an extension of its strategy to build an allied political and security system across the Red Sea and the Horn of Africa, most notably following Who Tea gains around Bab al-Mandab at the beginning of Yemen’s conflict.
Abiy Ahmed’s election as Ethiopia’s prime minister in 2018 further accelerated an alliance between Addis Ababa and Abu Dhabi.
That same year, the U A E-sponsored Eritrean-Ethiopia peace agreement pledged to support the Ethiopian treasury with three billion dollars, and made huge investments in various sectors.
From this perspective, the possibility of the Tigray ans seizing power in Addis Ababa was a threat to these political arrangements, and Emirati investments, especially since the TPLF view Abu Dhabi with hostility after its role in their first defeat in November 2020.
Turkish drones in the Habesha sky.
The visit of the Ethiopian prime minister to Ankara in August 2021 represented a turning point in the relationship between the two countries, which had become estranged in parallel with the development of Ethiopian ties with the U A E-Saudi axis.
During the visit, a package of agreements was signed that included “military cooperation”. Indeed, according to the Turkish Defence Industries Corporation, the value of Turkish military exports to Ethiopia increased from just $234,000 in 2020 to nearly $95 million in 2021.
Although in July 2021 the Turkish embassy in Addis Ababa denied that it had supplied drones to Addis Ababa, reports alleged the participation of Bayraktar TB2 drones in military operations in Ethiopia’s conflict after Ahmed’s visit to Ankara, which were not denied by either side this time.
This development is an extension of the Turkish approach in the region described by Jason Moseley, a Research Associate at the African Studies Centre at Oxford University. “Turkey has adopted an interventionist attitude in the regional crisis, with the consequent rebalancing between soft and hard power in favor of the latter,” he wrote last year.
In fact, Turkey saw drone support for the Ethiopian government as a strategic gain, bolstering its reputation in the African military and security market after it had proven its success in an African war arena, with growing demand for this type of weapon.
Ankara’s participation also indicates that Turkish construction companies could make a significant contribution to the reconstruction of infrastructure in the areas destroyed by the war
Preventing Ethiopia from sliding into a civil war protects Ankara’s large investments inside the country and ensures that the ensuing chaos does not spread into neighbouring Somalia, the most important centre of Turkish influence in the African continent.
Additionally, Turkish support for the Ethiopian government appears to be a strategic necessity due to Ankara’s fears of the Tigray ans, who Ethiopia has accused of being supported by Egypt.
In this sense, Ankara’s ties with Ethiopia are related to the exchange of support between the two countries, which is taking place in the context of their conflict with Egypt.
Iran seeks an opportunity
In a letter to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, on 7 December 2021, TPLF leader Debretsion Gebremichael accused Iran, along with the UAE and Turkey, of providing the Ethiopian army with weapons, including drones.
Prior to that, the US government had accused Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force (IRGC-QF) of providing drones to Ethiopia, and on 29 October 2021, sanctions were issued by the US Treasury Department.
According to investigative websites, Iranian drones have been seen in Ethiopia and 15 flights from two airlines linked to the IRGC have been monitored from Iran to the Harar Meda military base in Ethiopia.
Both the Iranian and Ethiopian governments have not yet commented on these reports.
The sharp dispute between Ethiopia and the United States over the war in Tigray, and Washington’s continuous pressure on Ahmed’s government, who has framed the conflict as a colonial attack on Ethiopia’s unity, has apparently brought Tehran and Addis Ababa closer.
Iran sees the Ethiopian PM’s need for military equipment as an opportunity to expand its strategic presence in a country that is historically an ally of the United States and Israel.
This level of Iranian engagement demonstrates the importance of the Ethiopian arena for Tehran, and indicates Iran’s desire to enter the burgeoning military and security market in Africa.
However, the most important prize for Tehran is a return to Ethiopia, which is situated close to Yemen, the Arabian Peninsula, and the Horn of Africa, after losing its influence in recent years with allies Eritrea and Sudan following Emirati-Saudi pressure, and the fall of Omar al-Bashir’s regime in Khartoum after popular protests.
Ultimately, all three powers are trying to exploit a moment of Ethiopian weakness to create or consolidate their influence.
The weight and extent of their involvement are best indicated, perhaps, by consultations the US envoy to the Horn of Africa, which has historical influence in Ethiopia, has been having with Middle Eastern capitals to try to find a solution to the Ethiopian crisis.
💭 Australian Police use SONIC WEAPONS against men, women and children protesters in Canberra.
A Crime Against Humanity!
1st, they allowed Arabs, Turks & Iranians to use drones to massacre ancient Christians & Jews of Ethiopia + Yemen – Now They’re using supersonic weapons on their own folks.
Using supersonic weapons on civilians is no doubt a crime against humanity. The Police are wearing ear plugs. So they know what they are doing.When the time comes I hope Australians hold those responsible for these crimes accountable and justice done.
👉 A very sad and worrisome trend: Governments in Australia, New Zealand, Europe, USA and Canada are all quickly becoming like a dystopia.
They can break up protests with loud, piercing sound, but Long Range Acoustic Devices (LRADs) can also cause permanent hearing damage. Australian law enforcement agencies are now investing in the technology, but sound and law experts say their potential use is extremely concerning.
Australia’s police forces are buying up devices capable of causing long-term hearing damage from a distance.
The controversial Long Range Acoustic Device, or LRAD, has been used to disperse crowds in protest situations in the US.
The secrecy of the state around the tools, the weapons that it has and is capable of using on its population is something to be really, really concerned about.
Its use at a Pittsburgh G20 protest in 2009 left University of Missouri English professor Karen Piper with permanent hearing damage.
‘We had seen these machines there [that] looked like an armoured vehicle with a satellite dish on top,’ says Piper, who had been observing the protest from a distance.
‘Then this machine emits this long piercing noise. It’s a very high frequency, it really hurts your ears.
‘I started to not feel well immediately after that. I felt dizzy and nauseous and disoriented.’
Piper’s hearing continued to suffer in the following days and months. Tests eventually revealed the effects caused by her exposure to the LRAD were permanent.
‘It’s actually nerve damage, and those nerves will never recover,’ she says.
LRADs continue to be used by American authorities, including during protests over police brutality in 2014.
The Law Report contacted all of Australia’s police forces and found more than half now own LRADs.
Victorian, West Australian, South Australian and Queensland police, as well as the Australian Federal Police, admitted to purchasing the device, while New South Wales and Northern Territory police would not comment.
Melbourne University sound and law expert James Parker says potential use of the LRAD in Australia is deeply troubling.
‘The secrecy of the state around the tools, the weapons that it has and is capable of using on its population is something to be really, really concerned about,’ says Parker.
‘It expands the nature of police/state/military authority in a certain kind of way. It makes sound itself part of the arsenal that police and military and state institutions have.
‘I think there’s a question about whether or not we want sound to be used in this way at all.’
The LRAD is marketed as a communication device, and was first used at sea by the US Navy and commercial shipping companies to ward off pirates.
Later, the device was deployed by the US military in Iraq and Afghanistan to clear buildings.
‘They could play the LRAD’s alert function at high volume, people wouldn’t be able to stand it, they would run out and the snipers could pick them off,’ says Parker.
Parker says LRADs have since been marketed ‘quite aggressively’ to military and police forces around the world.
None of Australia’s state police forces would provide The Law Report with guidelines for LRAD use, though some said they would only be used for communication, such as in siege situations.
Yet Parker says the nature of the technology and its ability to cause harm to bystanders means it should be the subject of much broader debate.
‘Police and military have been able to hurt people for a long time—they have batons, they have guns—[but] the LRAD is indiscriminate,’ he says.
‘Whoever happens to be in the way of the soundwave is equally likely to be affected, no matter who you are, no matter why you are there. At least a baton should in principle be aimed at somebody, while the LRAD is aimed at everybody.
‘Whether or not my hearing is damaged at a protest because the police use the LRAD, I think there’s something malevolent about the fact that I’m just being compelled through sound to act in a certain way. I’m being treated as a brute biological entity.’
In Karen Piper’s case, she successfully settled for damages of $72,000 against the City of Pittsburgh, and has since pushed for clearer guidelines around the use of LRADs.
But she says no amount of money is worth the loss of her hearing.
‘You can’t put value on a human organ like that. I have to live for the rest of my life knowing that my hearing is already bad and will get worse as I age.
💭 The United Arab Emirates said it had intercepted a ballistic missile that was fired by Yemen’s Houthi as the Gulf state hosted Israel’s President Isaac Herzog and war criminal PM of Ethiopia Abiy Ahmed made their visit.
🔥 The weapons airlift to criminal fascist Oromo regime of evil Abiy Ahmed Ali
The war that genocidal Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and President Isaias Afwerki have been waging against Tigray for over a year has been fueled by drones provided by Turkey, China and Iran. Arming by these states has been openly discussed – but not the airlift of the weapons themselves.
☆ China has been reportedly provided Wing Loong drone to Addis.
☆ Turkey has supplied drones to Ethiopia after a visit to Ankara on 18 August 2021 by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali.
☆ In August 2021 it was reported that “Ethiopia has managed to secure a hasty contract with Iran for the delivery of a number of Mohajer-6 unmanned combat aerial vehicles (UCAVs).”
☆ Israel is apparently one of the outside powers that has refused to provide military drones to Ethiopia.
The first Babylon was a city in a desert that was located in the same geographic region as the Tower of babel and the Garden of Eden. In the Garden of Eden Satan gained access into the human race through deception. Adam and Eve through their rebellion gave their God-given authority over the earth into the hands of the Devil, whom the Bible calls “the god of this world.” Since that time Satan has been trying to indwell a man and through that man receive worship as God. Down through the centuries Satan has raised up one man after another and sought to control the world of man through that king of ruler. Apart from Judas Iscariot, Satan has been prevented by God from entering into a human being. The restraining force of the Holy Spirit has prevented this from happening, however, just before Jesus comes back the restraining power of the Holy Spirit will be taken away and the man of sin and lawlessness will be revealed to the world. (2 Thessalonians 2:7-8)
The “Fullness” of Satan will dwell in the Antichrist
In this man all of the fullness of Satan will dwell in bodily form. He will have a city from which he will rule his empire. John the Apostle told us that the city of Pergamum in Turkey was the place where “Satan has his throne” and the city “where Satan lives.” (Revelation 2:13) Pergamum was the first place where the Roman Emperor Augustus was deified. However, the prophet Daniel tells us that the Antichrist’s ultimate goal is to set up his capital in the temple of God in Jerusalem. As Daniel tells us concerning the Antichrist; “He will pitch his royal tents between the seas at the beautiful holy mountain. Yet he will come to his end, and no one will help him.”(Daniel 11:45) The beautiful holy mountain is Jerusalem.
A “Hydra with many heads”
Now as we have already seen Ancient Babylon was a “Hydra” with several heads or components. It was a militaristic, socio-economic, political and religious empire all in one. These characteristics were conspicuous features of all of the ancient empires. The main thing connecting them all together was religion through the two main gods or deities of each succeeding empire. It was the same god and goddess they worshipped but with their names changed. There was the crescent male moon god and the female star god. They were a husband and wife originally created in the image of Nimrod and Semiramis.
The “Mother of harlots”
Today, like Babylon of old, Islam is a Hydra with several heads and many components. It is a militaristic, socio-economic, political and religious empire all in one. However, you have Muslim countries that are strictly Sharia Law compliant such as Iran, Iraq, Libya and the Sudan while you have other Muslim countries such as Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Egypt seen by strict Muslims as compromising with the West. The leading nation today that is seen as a harlot by the strict Muslim countries is Saudi Arabia.
“a harlot and the mother of harlots”
Babylon the Great in Bible prophecy is a city that is called “a harlot and the mother of harlots” because it is the source of all false religions that encompass the earth today. As we have seen in our previous studies the source of all false religion goes all the way back to Nimrod and Semiramis whose image is perpetuated today in the crescent moon and star of Islam. However, the mystery, Babylon the Great, described in the book of Revelation is not describing Ancient Babylon because historically that empire was long gone when the apostle John penned the book of Revelation and besides Ancient Babylon was not near a sea.
A literal city
Many past Biblical scholars majoring on Eschatology have interpreted Mystery, Babylon the Great in different ways as we saw in our first study. Some say it is the City of Rome with the Roman Catholic Church as “the Harlot.” Others have seen Babylon the Great as the world at large under the power of Satan. Some more recently have seen Babylon the Great as the city of New York. Then there are a growing number of other eschatology teachers who are looking afresh at their Bibles and coming to the conclusion that Babylon the Great is the harlot city of Mecca that rides on the back of the Beast Empire of Islam. We know from the Bible that the Beast Empire burns the harlot woman with fire. (Revelation 17:15-18) When we see Babylon the Great described in the Bible there is no doubt that it is describing a literal city and that there is no other city other than Mecca in the heart of Saudi Arabia. Mecca is the most likely candidate for Babylon the Great, “the Mother of harlots” and the source of all of the false religions on the earth. From a Biblical perspective why is the city of Mecca most likely to be Babylon the Great and the mother of harlots? Let’s now turn to the Bible itself for the answer…
1. The City of Mecca is located in a desert by the sea.
The Bible itself tells us that Babylon the Great is a literal city in a literal desert. The original city of Babylon was built in a desert in a plain in Shinar. (Genesis 11:1-2) This city was built by Nimrod the first major type of the Antichrist in the Bible. He ruled over a city that majored on religion. Babylon the Great in the book of Genesis once more appears in the book of Revelation and it too is a literal city if we are to be consistent with the way we understand Biblical prophecy. John was a Hebrew and his revelations were based on the Old Testament. Much of the imagery he describes in the book of Revelation are taken directly from the Old Testament books such as Jeremiah, Isaiah, Zechariah and some of the minor prophets such as Joel and Amos. What then are we told about this end–time Babylon?
A pattern
We must always keep in mind that the Hebrew way of understanding Bible prophecy is a “pattern” where you have multiple partial fulfilments of similar events all pointing to an ultimate and final fulfilment. When the prophet Isaiah and Jeremiah were describing the city of Babylon and its ultimate demise they were describing a pattern of what would happen to the ultimate Babylon and its final destruction. The description of the fall of Ancient Babylon was a pattern describing the ultimate fall of Babylon the Great, a city to arise again in the future. In describing the fall of Ancient Babylon and its king the prophets were also describing the fall of the last Babylon the Great. This is reflected in Isaiah chapters 13 and 14.
A city in a desert
The Bible then tells us that the last City of Babylon is a city in a desert that will be punished by God for her wickedness as a harlot and the source of all false religion. John describes this vision; “Then the angel carried me away in the Spirit to a desert. There I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was covered with blasphemous names and had seven heads and ten horns.” (Revelation 17:3) Rome is not in a desert neither is New York or the city of Brussels the home of the European Union. None of these cities are in a desert! However, Mecca is. In the context of Revelation chapters 17 and 18 as they describe other aspects of the city of Babylon the Great it can only apply to Mecca.
A ‘wicked woman’
The prophet Zechariah also saw this city that was the mother of harlots. He described it as a wicked woman in a basket being carried to the Land of Shinar which was the original location of Ancient Babylon. She symbolizes the spirit of all false religion. Zechariah saw this; “Then the angel who was speaking to me came forward and said to me, “Look up and see what is appearing.” I asked, “What is it? ”He replied, “It is a basket.” And he added, “This is the iniquity of the people throughout the land.” Then the cover of lead was raised, and there in the basket sat a woman! He said, “This is wickedness,” and he pushed her back into the basket and pushed its lead cover down on it. Then I looked up—and there before me were two women, with the wind in their wings! They had wings like those of a stork, and they lifted up the basket between heaven and earth. “Where are they taking the basket?” I asked the angel who was speaking to me. He replied, “To the country of Babylonia to build a house for it. When the house is ready, the basket will be set there in its place.” (Zechariah 5:5-11) Once again it is clear that all false religion including the spirit of Apostasy sweeping the professing Christian Church today has its source in the Babylon of Nimrod. Jezebel with her false prophets deceiving and leading Ahab and the Israelites astray is a major type of what is going on in the Church today. The spirit of Jezebel is at work. The mystery, that is Babylon the Great the Mother of Harlots has infested much of western Christianity. The Church of Rome with its false and unbiblical doctrines is only one part of mystery Babylon. All false religions have their source in the Babylon created by Nimrod and Semiramis.
2. The City of Mecca is the “heart” of the Antichrist spirit.
Many fine Bible teachers down through Church history even to the present day have focused on the Roman Catholic Church as being the Harlot of Babylon mentioned in the Bible. Now they were not completely wrong in that the office of the Pontiff itself is Anti-Christ in that the Pope is called “The Vicar of Christ” or in Latin “Vicarious Christos.” However, in Greek it is “Anti-Christos” or literally; “Antichrist.” The word itself in the Greek means “against Christ” and also “In place of Christ.” Every Pope, because of so called “Papal infallibility in matters of doctrine and faith,” sits in the seat of Antichrist in that he takes upon himself a title reserved exclusively. He is a Spirit of truth and not error. He is the one who leads us into all truth we are told in the Bible. The Roman Catholic Church teaches error that is perpetuated by the papal Office to this day. In that sense every Pope is an Antichrist because they support and enforce false and unbiblical teaching in many areas of their doctrines and theology.
Islam and not Rome
However, does the Roman Catholic Church deny the Father and the Son relationship within the Godhead? Do they deny the Tri-unity of God? Is in fact the Roman Catholic Church against Christ? No they are not against Him, at least outwardly. However, Islam, outwardly and radically denies the Father and the Son relationship in the Triune Godhead. They hate Christians because we believe in the Trinity and teach that God begat a Son in His image. This is anathema to Muslims. John the Apostle clearly tells us; “Who is the liar but the one who denies that Jesus is the Christ? This is the antichrist, the one who denies the Father and the Son.” (1 John 2:22)
The worship of a man
Today Mecca with its Black Stone in the Ka’ba is the focus of Muslim worship around the globe. The “image that fell from heaven’ is worshipped and venerated by millions of Muslims today. In virtually every country in the world today Muslims bow down to the image in Mecca when they pray towards Mecca. Like in the time of Nebuchadnezzar they worshiped an image of their false god. Ultimately, Muslims will worship the Mahdi of Islam who will demand to be worshipped as God. Muslims say that the worship of a man is forbidden in Islam yet when you look at the titles given to Mohammed in Islam many of them could only apply to one who is divine in nature. It is believed by Muslims the world over that the Mahdi will have the spirit of Mohammed, however, the Mahdi will be in reality the incarnation of Satan, He will be the man of sin who will sit in God’s Temple to proclaim himself God and demand to be worshipped. Once Mecca is destroyed the Muslims will be forced to worship a man. Right now for millions of Muslims around the world they already worship the image of the beast empire when they bow down towards Mecca. The historical roots of Mecca that once housed 360 Arabian gods including Allah the moon-god trace their religious practices all the way back to Nimrod and Semiramis. (We have dealt with this in our previous study)
Edom is still around
The descendants of Ishmael and Esau (Edom) still persecute the people of God both Jew and Christian today. No other enemy of Israel has a history like that of Edom. The enmity and animosity of the Arab world towards the Jewish people has existed for centuries. The religion itself that denies the Tri-unity of the Godhead goes all the way back to the Tower of Babel and Nimrod, the first major type of the Antichrist mentioned in the Bible. They hate Christians and Jews “the people of the book.” They call us “monkeys and pigs.” No wonder the Bible speaks a great deal about the fall of Babylon the Great. Every false religion today can be traced back in some way to Nimrod and Semiramis. Indeed Mecca today stands as a sentinel of the spirit of Antichrist. Islam denies Christ, hates Christ and is against Christ! She is the Mother of all harlots as she has given birth to every false religion and cult on the face of the earth. They all trace their roots back to Nimrod himself. When you see the Clock Tower with its crescent moon symbol at the top of the tower rising above the Ka’ba it looks exactly like another Tower of babel. It is actually called Mt Babel!
3. The City of Mecca is to be destroyed by fire
According to God’s Word the Bible the beast empire destroys the harlot with fire. (Revelation 17:16-17) She has been riding on its back and it has “bucked her off and had her for breakfast!” She has become “toast!” The woman was connected to the beast. Look at what the prophet Isaiah says in chapter 13 concerning the destruction of Babylon. Its context is the Day of the Lord, a clear reference to the last days. In this prophecy Isaiah predicts that Persia will destroy Babylon to the point where “no Arab will pitch his tent.” (Vs 20) Arabs live in Saudi Arabia. Do they pitch their tents in Rome or in Europe or in New York? So bad will the destruction be that only the desert creatures will live there. It will be uninhabited by humans. Notice that Persia is the instrument of Babylon’s demise. (Vs 17) In Isaiah 21 we see the same scenario where it says; “A prophecy against the desert by the sea” and goes on to describe the destruction of Babylon by Persia. It says; “Elam, attack! Media lay siege! I will bring to an end all the groaning she has caused.” (Isaiah 21: 2) Elam is today Iran. Media today is Hamadan, a province located within Iran and the capital of the Ancient Medes who were aligned with the Persians. This prophecy is to have its ultimate fulfilment in the future. Iran will destroy the city in the desert by the sea. In the prophecy Dedan, and Arabia are mentioned. All of them are located in Saudi Arabia. The original city of Ancient Babylon was located in a desert but not by the sea.
Babylon was never destroyed
Furthermore, the original Babylon located in modern day Iraq was never destroyed but overthrown. The Medo-Persians occupied the city and then after the Greeks defeated the Medo-Persian Empire Alexander the Great made it his capital. Over the centuries it atrophied but was never destroyed. Remember that Saddam Hussein even tried to rebuild the city of Babylon when he was alive. However, it is Persia that devastates Babylon and makes it uninhabitable. This prophecy has a future fulfilment. How could this be? It never happened historically. Yet Isaiah tells us it will be like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah. (Vs 19) Sodom and Gommorah were destroyed by fire out of the heavens! Babylon was never destroyed by fire.
Iran’s role
Today Persia of course is Iran. The western nations are worried about Iran’s nuclear programme. Saudi Arabia is worried that Iran will one day use a nuclear device to destroy it. The Saudi’s no longer feel they have the full support of the west. The Sharia compliant country of Iran hates Saudi Arabia as they see it as a harlot that has compromised Islam by its associations with the western nations through its oil, “the wine that has intoxicated the western nations.” Elsewhere Isaiah tells us that Saudi Arabia will be burned with fire and to the point where the oil fields will burn making the land uninhabitable to humans. The context again is the Day of the Lord. Edom is the land mentioned. Today Edom is Southern Jordan but also encompasses Saudi Arabia. In Ezekiel chapter 25 we are told that Edom stretches from Teman to Dedan. Teman is in Yemen, while Dedan was an ancient city in central Saudi Arabia that is now known as Al-Ula. The land mass between Teman (Yemen) and Dedan (in the heart of Saudi Arabia) covers a hugh area. It is the home of the Arab world and of course Mecca itself is the great city that rules over the kings of the earth today through its oil exports and its imports all via the sea.
Saudi Arabia will burn
Here is what Isaiah says about God’s judgement on Edom; “For the LORD has a day of vengeance, a year of retribution, to uphold Zion’s cause. Edom’s streams will be turned into pitch, her dust into burning sulphur; her land will become blazing pitch! It will not be quenched night or day; its smoke will rise forever. From generation to generation it will lie desolate; no one will ever pass through it again. The desert owl and screech owl will possess it; the great owl and the raven will nest there. God will stretch out over Edom the measuring line of chaos and the plumb line of desolation. Her nobles will have nothing there to be called a kingdom, all her princes will vanish away. Thorns will overrun her citadels, nettles and brambles her strongholds. She will become a haunt for jackals, a home for owls. Desert creatures will meet with hyenas, and wild goats will bleat to each other; there the night creatures will also lie down and find for themselves places of rest. The owl will nest there and lay eggs, she will hatch them, and care for her young under the shadow of her wings; there also the falcons will gather each with its mate.” (Isaiah 34:8-14)
Burning oil fields
The only weapon that could produce this kind of Aftermath would have to be the detonation of a nuclear weapon. In Revelation chapters 17 & 18 we see the shipmasters that have traded with the city staying afar off and watching the great city burn and also being terrified of its destruction due to the risk of nuclear fallout. The whole of the Arabian Peninsula will be covered with a cloud of nuclear dust added to this would be the smoke from burning oil fields. Mecca of course is in Saudi Arabia. Jeremiah the prophet also said this about the destruction of Edom; “Bozrah (Southern Jordan) will become a ruin and an object of horror, of reproach and of cursing; and all of its towns will be in ruins forever….Edom (Southern Jordan and Saudi Arabia) will become an object of horror; all who pass by will be appalled and will scoff because of all its wounds. As Sodom and Gomorrah were overthrown, along with their neighbouring towns,” says the LORD, “so no one will live there; no man will dwell in it.” (Jeremiah 49:13, 17-18) Again, notice the reference to Sodom and Gomorrah. Both of these cities and their neighbouring towns were destroyed by fire from heaven that fell upon those cities on the plain. The Saudi Arabian oil fields will burn out of control to the point where the land will be uninhabitable for humans. “Her nobles (Oil Sheiks) “will have nothing there to be called a kingdom, all her princes will vanish away.” No wander the ship masters wail and mourn afar off as they watch this city burn and their means of their livelihood destroyed. (Revelation 18:9-17)
4. The City of Mecca has been attacked by Islamic forces in past centuries.
Now some would say; “Islamic forces would never destroy Mecca” however, Islamic forces have attacked Mecca in the past. Plenty of Muslims have attacked the city before. In the late 7th Century, Al-Hajjaj bin Yousef Al-Thaqafi (a Muslim) laid siege to Mecca and destroyed much of the Ka’ba with stones launched from catapults. During the First World War, Saudi Arabia was actually occupied by the Turkish Ottomans. The Turks deeply resented Arab imperialism that had spread through the vast Islamic empire and made strong attempts to restrict Arab culture and language throughout their empire. This enmity and resistance was so severe that the Arabs were persuaded by the British through their envoy, T. E. Lawrence, also known as “Lawrence of Arabia,” to revolt against the Ottoman occupation and help the allies.
A disregard for Mecca
The Turks bombarded the mosque of the Ka’ba, the most sacred shrine of all Islam. One shell actually hit the Ka’ba, burning a hole in the “holy carpet” and killing nine Arabs who were kneeling in prayer. In modern times, the same disregard for Mecca by Muslims has been seen. On November 20, 1979, over 500 militants and their leader attacked the false Islamic Mahdi, Juhaiman ibn Muhammad ibn Saif al Utaiba.7 In the 1980’s, on several occasions, followers of Ayatollah Khomeini disrupted the annual hajj, or pilgrimage to Mecca. Most of this was quelled by heavy security controls, but in July 1987, over 400 people died as a result of a serious riot instigated by thousands of Iranian pilgrims.
The Gulf War
Three years later, during Gulf War I, Saddam Hussein sent numerous scuds flying over Saudi Arabia, disregarding the high risk they would pose to the Islamic “holy land.” There were no protests from Muslim nations. And as recent as 2003, three al-Qaeda militants blew themselves up during an attack in Mecca. The idea of Muslims attacking Mecca or Saudi Arabia is far from impossible. The day is drawing near when the emerging Beast Empire led by Turkey and Iran will attack Mecca and destroy the Arabian Harlot.”
“Fire out of Heaven”
So then the only city located in a desert by the sea in Saudi Arabia (Ancient Edom) is Mecca, a city destined to be destroyed by “fire out of heaven” as it were. Mecca is situated by the Red Sea. Jeremiah the prophet said that its destruction would be heard at the Red Sea; “Therefore hear what the LORD has planned against Edom, what He has purposed against those who live in Teman… At the sound of their fall the earth will tremble; their cry will resound to the Red Sea.” (Jeremiah 49:20, 21) Teman is in Saudi Arabia.
The LORD’S Vengeance
While Mecca will be destroyed by fire it will be Israel that will finally destroy Islam. Ezekiel God’s prophet said this would be so. “This is what the Sovereign Lord says: ‘Because Edom took revenge on Judah and became very guilty by doing so, therefore this is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will stretch out my hand against Edom and kill both man and beast. I will lay it waste, and from Teman to Dedan they will fall by the sword. I will take vengeance on Edom by the hand of my people Israel, and they will deal with Edom in accordance with my anger and my wrath; they will know my vengeance, declares the Sovereign Lord.’” (Ezekiel 25 12-14) Teman to Dedan encompasses Saudi Arabia. Teman is actually in Yemen, while Dedan was an ancient city in central Saudi Arabia. Because Ezekiel mentions Teman to Dedan it would be describing the entire landmass stretching southward along the Red Sea and well into central Saudi Arabia.
5. The Messiah of Israel will destroy Islam forever!
Iran will destroy Mecca, however, Israel, under its commander and Chief Yeshua Meshach will deliver the death stroke to Islam (Edom) at Bozrah. As the prophet Isaiah tells us; “Who is this coming from Edom, from Bozrah, with His garments stained crimson? Who is this, robed in splendour, striding forward in the greatness of His strength? “It is I, proclaiming victory, mighty to save.” Why are your garments red, like those of one treading the winepress? “I have trodden the winepress alone; from the nations no one was with me. I trampled them in My anger and trod them down in My wrath; their blood spattered My garments, and I stained all My clothing. It was for Me the day of vengeance; the year for Me to redeem had come. I looked, but there was no one to help, I was appalled that no one gave support; so my own arm achieved salvation for Me, and My own wrath sustained me. I trampled the nations in My anger; in my wrath I made them drunk and poured their blood on the ground.” (Isaiah 63:1-6)
His name is the Word of God
John the Apostle describes the same event when he said; “I saw heaven standing open and there before me was a white horse, whose rider is called Faithful and True. With Justice He judges and wages war. His eyes are like blazing fire, and on His head are many crowns. He has a name written on him that no one knows but He himself. He is dressed in a robe dipped in blood, and His name is the Word of God. The armies of heaven were following Him, riding on white horses and dressed in fine linen, white and clean. Coming out of His mouth is a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations. “He will rule them with an iron sceptre.” He treads the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God Almighty. On His robe and on His thigh he has this name written: king of kings and lord of lords. And I saw an angel standing in the sun, who cried in a loud voice to all the birds flying in mid-air, “Come, gather together for the great supper of God, so that you may eat the flesh of kings, generals, and the mighty, of horses and their riders, and the flesh of all people, free and slave, great and small.” Then I saw the beast and the kings of the earth and their armies gathered together to wage war against the rider on the horse and his army. But the beast was captured, and with it the false prophet who had performed the signs on its behalf. With these signs he had deluded those who had received the mark of the beast and worshiped its image. The two of them were thrown alive into the fiery lake of burning sulphur. The rest were killed with the sword coming out of the mouth of the rider on the horse, and all the birds gorged themselves on their flesh.” (Revelation 19:11-19)
“Fallen, fallen is Babylon!”
When our Lord Jesus comes back He will be the warrior Messiah in the character of Gideon. What Gideon did to the Midianites the Lord Jesus will do to Islam. Bozrah is in Southern Jordan and the gateway to Saudi Arabia. The Messiah is seen there doing battle with the beast empire of Islam. In its context the forces being overthrown by the Lord Jesus and His forces is the beast empire of the Antichrist and the armies of the nations. It is not a European confederation but a Middle Eastern confederation. The nations involved in this conflict are named in Ezekiel chapter 38 and 39 and they are all Islamic nations today. When the armies of those nations and others with them fall on the mountains of Israel Iran’s army will also be amongst them. The Beast will destroy the woman riding it with fire but the Messiah will destroy the Beast! Indeed in that day it will be said; “Fallen, Fallen is Babylon! ”
💭 Turkish embassy in Ethiopia forced to move to Kenya over insecurity
Turkey’s embassy in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa has been moved to neighboring Kenya due to threats after the deployment of Turkish drones by the Abiy Ahmed regime to suppress the Tigray rebellion, the T24 news website reported.
Although the Turkish government hadn’t made an official statement regarding the sale of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) to the Ethiopian government, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed had visited the country and met with President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan twice in the past six months, adding to the widespread belief that drones bought from Turkey, in addition to Iran and the United Arab Emirates, had changed the course of the civil war in Ethiopia, journalist Barçın Yinanç wrote in an article on the T24 news website on Monday.
“Turkey’s embassy in Addis Ababa cannot operate from the capital due to threats it has received. The ambassador and several embassy staff are serving from [neighboring] Kenya. There was no statement from the [Turkish] Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the matter,” the journalist said.
The conflict that has been going on for over a year in Ethiopia, Africa’s second-most populous country and a linchpin of regional security, has left thousands dead, forced more than 2 million people from their homes and pushed parts of the country into famine.
Forces under Abiy Ahmed, the Ethiopian military, ethnic militias, and troops from neighboring Eritrea, are fighting to oust the Tigray People’s Liberation Front, or T.P.L.F., from its stronghold in the northern region of Tigray.
In early November, the government teetered when fighters from Tigray surged south toward Addis Ababa, forcing the prime minister to declare a state of emergency. Foreigners fled the country and the government detained thousands of civilians from the Tigrayan ethnic group.
But weeks later Abiy pulled off a stunning military reversal, halting the rebel march less than 100 miles from the capital, then forcing them to retreat hundreds of miles to their mountainous stronghold in Tigray.
He succeeded partly by mobilizing ordinary citizens to take up arms to block the Tigrayan advance. However, his fortunes were greatly boosted by a fleet of armed drones, recently imported from the United Arab Emirates, Turkey and Iran, that pummeled the Tigrayan forces, according to a report by The New York Times last week.
A drone strike on a flour mill in May Tsebri, a town in the northwest of Ethiopia (Tigray region), reportedly killed 17 people on Monday January 10 and injured dozens more, according to eyewitnesses.
The January 10 bombings came just days after a similar attack on a camp for displaced persons in Dedebit killed 59 and injured nearly 140 on Friday January 7.
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