Last week’s U.S.-African Leaders Summit was the culmination of months of hard work by diplomats at the State Department and National Security Council. It all went out the window with a single photograph: President Joe Biden watching the World Cup with Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, Liberian President George Weah, and Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari.
Tigrayans and many outside observers accuse Abiy of genocide. He both precipitated a blockade of Tigray that starved a half million Tigrayans and subcontracted the looting, rape, and murder of siege survivors to Eritrean forces. Among the victims of this slaughter was the uncle of World Health Organization head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus who himself hails from Tigray.
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