Social media misinformation stokes a worsening civil war in Ethiopia
In Ethiopia, old ethnic tensions are being incited in new ways. And that means the bloody civil war may be entering an even more destructive phase.
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Ethiopia's year-long civil war may be entering a more destructive phase
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