Eritrean troops are accused of abducting farmers and stealing livestock in Ethiopia’s Tigray

By The Associated Press

An aid memo seen by The Associated Press says that Eritrean troops are abducting farmers and stealing hundreds of livestock in border regions of Ethiopia’s Tigray region. The memo prepared on Jan. 31 by the Ethiopia Health Cluster comes 15 months after a cease-fire ended a civil war there and called for their withdrawal. The memo is based on an assessment of two districts near the Eritrean border by U.N. agencies and nongovernmental organizations. It documents several instances of kidnapping and livestock raiding by Eritrean forces. Eritrea’s information minister denied the allegations and said the report are “false.” Eritrea was a key ally of Ethiopia’s government in the two-year war against the Tigray People’s Liberation Front.