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[Addis Standard @addisstandard]

Drone strikes in two locations in #Mekelle, 13 casualties received at #Ayder_Hospital

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[Yohannes Abraha @johniabraha]

The silence of the diplomatic community in Ethiopia and beyond is mind boggling.
@USEmbassyAddis @EUinEthiopia @UKinEthiopia your host is targeting civilians and bombing children in #Tigray.
#TigrayGenocide

[Tigrai Television @Tigrai_TV]

13 Residents, Including Two-Year-Old Child, Injured in #Mekelle Airstrike
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A team from Tigray Television has confirmed that 13 residents, including a two-year-old child, were injured in an airstrike carried out by Abiy Ahmed government in a neighborhood called Daero at Hawelti Subcity of Mekelle at around 11:00 a.m. today.
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https://t.co/7thTelU3yF

[Dade Desta @DadeDesta]

#ALERT: More Aerial Terror and Attacks on Mekelle
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Abiy Ahmed’s drones have struck residential areas of Mekelle, terrorizing civilians and injuring innocents.
Meanwhile, the AU, IGAD, and the broader international community watch in deafening silence and apparent indifference. How many more attacks on civilians will it take before this silence is broken?

[Addis Standard @addisstandard]

News: Drone strikes in two locations in #Mekelle, 13 casualties received at #Ayder_Hospital

Two drone strikes were reported in Mekelle, the capital of #Ethiopia’s #Tigray region, on Thursday, August 20, with Ayder Specialized Hospital saying it received 13 casualties from one of the strikes.

The first strike occurred in #Hawelti Sub-City, Momona Kebele, around the St. Mary Church, where residential homes were reportedly targeted. The Tigray Bureau of Communication Affairs initially said two adults and two children were injured and taken to hospital for treatment. However, Ayder Hospital later said its Emergency Department received 13 casualties from a drone strike in Mekelle’s #Daero residential area. The victims, including both adults and children, arrived at the hospital at around 11:30 a.m. for medical and surgical care.

A second drone strike occurred in the #Kuha area of Mekelle, residents confirmed to #Addis_Standard. No casualties were reported from that incident.

https://t.co/CIVBHPDT9j

[Meaza Gidey Gebremedhin @meazaG_]

What makes this possible is not merely 🇪🇹’s continued genocidal intent toward Tigrayans, but the intl. community’s failure to hold it accountable for the genocide it already committed & to establish a credible deterrent against recurrence.

Impunity is not passive. It emboldens.

[@Joe @JoeTseGy]

"የትግራይ ሕዝብን ከምድረ ገጽ ለማጥፋት እንቅልፍ አጥቶ ሲሠራ የቆየው የብልጽግና ሥርዓት፣ በትግራይ ሕዝብ ላይ ለረጅም ጊዜ ሲያካሂደው የቆየውን የድሮንና የአየር ድብደባ በመቀጠል፣ ዛሬ ነሐሴ 14 ጠዋት በመቀሌ ከተማ የድሮን ጥቃት ፈጽሟል።"

[Dade Desta @DadeDesta]

International media are now beginning to pick up on Abiy Ahmed’s dark record and shed light on his government’s continued violence against its own people, including aerial bombardments using jets and drones in Tigray and elsewhere. I am glad to see The Firstspot, a prominent South African media outlet, carry the story of yesterday’s attacks on Tigray, helping bring much-needed international attention to these disturbing developments.
https://t.co/fR7XjXrsxG
@_AfricanUnion @unsc @antonioguterres

[Kassa HaileMariam @KassaHMariam]

The Ethiopian government, under the leadership of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, who has been accused of genocide and destabilization in the Red Sea-Horn of Africa region, persists in its aggressive military activities in Tigray, which may provoke another severe conflict.

On the morning of August 20, 2026, at 11 AM local time, a drone strike conducted by the Ethiopian government targeted civilians, including children and women, in Mekelle, the national capital of Tigray. Eyewitnesses and local media reports, which provide visual evidence, indicate that civilians, including children and women, sustained serious injuries and are currently receiving medical treatment at Ayder Specialized Hospital in Mekelle.
@StateDept @SecRubio @SenateForeign @SenatorShaheen @SenatorCardin @SenatorRisch @SenateGOP @SenateDems @antonioguterres

[Kassa HaileMariam @KassaHMariam]

Dear Ambassador Masinga, I am unsure if any American diplomat has ever been photographed in a celebratory manner with individuals deemed war criminals by the US State Department for committing ethnic cleansing, as described by Secretary Blinken in his March 2021 speech. These individuals and settlers have engaged in ethnic cleansing through extrajudicial killings, forcibly displacing over a million people, and resettling approximately a million settlers by seizing the land and property of Tigrayans in Western Tigray.

Ambassador Masinga, it is well-known that for months, the genocidal Abiy Ahmed Ali has restricted your travel to Tigray. So, how is it that he now permits you to visit Western Tigray? Is this part of his agenda? For your reference, I have attached some international reports on the war crimes and crimes against humanity these individuals committed in Western Tigray.

1. US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken: Acts of ‘ethnic cleansing’ committed in Western Tigray, March 10, 2021
https://t.co/wW4obYnRGn

2. A CNN investigation has uncovered evidence of the torture, mass detention and execution of residents in the town of Humera in Ethiopia's Tigray region. CNN's Nima Elbagir report September 9, 2021
https://t.co/nxzhYZHtyX

3. Ethiopia: New wave of atrocities in Western Tigray. International investigations, access to detainees key to deter further abuses. December 16, 2021, Amnesty International
https://t.co/GNFDDvkPy7

4. Ethiopia: War crimes committed in Western Tigray - New Report. April 6, 2022, Amnesty International
https://t.co/hdTLlG7vxw

@USEmbassyAddis
@SecRubio @StateDept @SenateGOP @SenateDems
@SenatorRisch
@SenateForeign

[G. Drar @gdrarr]

Remember, Getachew Reda prepared for this interview, and here's what came out. His political 180° gymnastics to keep his belly fed via his new position with Abiy is astounding. However, Mahdi Hassan forced him to be exposed and probably be dumped by Abiy, as he exposed Abiy as a genocider. From what we've heard, this is just a small glimpse into how badly Reda has fallen in the interview. Oh, this is awful.

[Children’s Health Defense @ChildrensHD]

RFK Jr.’s Senate testimony just BROKE the Internet.

“We were lied to about EVERYTHING.”

Kennedy spent 3 hours EXPOSING the TRUTH about vaccines and autism, the CDC’s coverup of vaccine injuries, and why Trump just FIRED corrupt CDC leadership.

And he named names—he called out corrupt Senators to their faces for taking Pharma money.

Bookmark this thread.

You’ll have to see this to believe it:

🧵THREAD

[Simon @SIMON_TE]

Abraham Verghese’s talks about The late P.M Meles zenawi on his 2025 Harvard graduation commencement speech! Abraham told graduates “ he hasn’t yet met a student as brilliant as Meles “

[Steve Hanke @steve_hanke]

#EthiopiaWatch🇪🇹: Using high frequency data, I accurately measure Ethiopia’s inflation at 39%/yr—the 6th HIGHEST in the world.

PM Abiy Ahmed’s Ethiopia = ARROGANT, CORRUPT, & INCOMPETENT

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 #BREAKING - IT'S OFFICIAL: Trump administration moves to BAN essentially ALL artificial food dyes in the USA food supply at RFK Jr.'s direction.

Eliminate 6 dyes: Red 40, Yellow 5, Yellow 6, Blue 1, Blue 2, Green 3, by the end of 2026.

FDA Commissioner Makary says: "This administration is NOT interested in doing the same old things as we watch our children get SICKER."

Goes on to say cancer, diabetes, etc. going up at "alarming rate" - "nobody seems to know why."

Goal? Address what's IN THE FOOD, not focusing on more drug admissions.

- Establish national standard, timeline for food industry to move from petroleum dyes to natural
- Initiate process to revoke authorization of citrus red 2 and orange b
- Requesting food companies remove Red 3 SOONER than the deadline

Effectively "ALL" petroleum-based dyes to be removed.

[John @YohannesDesta22]

📌 አንረሳዉም፤ አነኚህ እኩያን ቀስቅሰዉ ወደ ትግራይ ስንቱን ልከዉ አስጨረሱ
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[Meaza Gidey Gebremedhin @meazaG_]

They seize your land and drive your people into exile to wither in refugee and IDP camps. They weaponize hunger and rapeㅡshattering the bodies and spirits of your women. They pillage what generations built, stripping away not just wealth but the very foundation of your future. And when they have stolen, killed and defiled enough— they mock the suffering they engineered, ridiculing the broken lives they forced upon you. Such is the cold, calculated cruelty of a fascist, genocidal regime! Such is Ethiopia!

#FreeTigray