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Survivor of Ethiopian Fighting Warns 'People Will Slowly Start to Die'

Associated Press

   NAIROBI - Shaken by the gunfire erupting around her town in Ethiopia's
   northern Tigray region, the woman decided to get out. She joined a long
   line at the local government office for the paperwork needed to travel.
   But when she reached the official, he told her she had wasted her time.

   "This is for people who are volunteering to fight," he said.

   As Ethiopia's government wages war in its Tigray region and seeks to
   arrest its defiant leaders, who regard the federal government as
   illegitimate after a falling-out over power, the fighting that could
   destabilize the Horn of Africa is hidden from outside view.
   Communications are severed, roads blocked and airports closed.

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