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Tigray the latest battlefront in Afwerki's three decades of wars

In this photo provided by Egypt's state news agency, MENA, Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki, left, meets with Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi at the presidential palace, in Cairo, Egypt, Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2018. [AP]

Getting news out of Eritrea is exceptionally difficult: it is - according to Reporters Without Borders - among the most difficult places in the world from which to report.

But in recent weeks news of the scale of the drive to recruit young (and not so young) men and women to be deployed in the war in the neighbouring Ethiopian region of Tigray has become apparent.

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