[Link] All sides in Ethiopian war committed crimes against civilians, UN report finds

Read: 4/11/2021 www.sbs.com.au

The report covers most of the year-long conflict, fought by Tigrayan forces against the Ethiopian military and its key allies: forces from Ethiopia's Amhara region and soldiers from the neighbouring nation of Eritrea.

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[Link] Behind a Billboard of Bowe Bergdahl, Khost Maintains Anti-Taliban Ways

Read: 4/11/2021 coffeeordie.com

KHOST, Afghanistan — It’s one of few stretches of road among these winding hills and twisting valleys that remains paved and intact, untouched by the two-decade war that crippled most of Afghanistan’s land arteries.

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[Link] The Coltan in Your Smartphone is Financing Colombian Guerrilla Armies

Read: 26/8/2021 www.vice.com

MEDELLIN, Colombia–Authorities in southern Colombia pulled over a cargo truck looking for drugs in early August. But instead of finding a pile of cocaine bricks, the truck was loaded with a sandy, blue-ish black rock called coltan.

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