A Facebook Reel shared more than 130 times and published in Amharic on August 21, 2023 claims to offer “proof that shows when Gedu gladly signed and handed over Welkait to Tigray”.
Gedu Andargachew is an Ethiopian parliamentarian who once served as Ethiopia’s foreign affairs minister, president of the Amhara region and national security adviser to Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed (archived here).
Welkait is a parcel of disputed land between Ethiopia’s Amhara and Tigray regions, located in the northern part of the country (archived here). It was part of Tigray until the war in 2020 when it was annexed to Amhara (archived here).
The video in the post comes from a TikTok account with 75,000 followers. A caption at the bottom of the clip in Amharic reads: “History revealed: excerpts shows Gedu handing over Welkait to Tigray.”
The footage shows a television interview with Gedu and then switches to a community meeting led by Gedu and Abay Woldu, formerly president of Tigray region.
The TikTok video has been shared more than 500 times.
Gedu, who was replaced (archived here) as Abiy’s security adviser in June 2022 by Redwan...
Unfortunately, Gregg Phillips’ claims that he was twice teleported from one place to another aren’t the biggest problems for this top government official with a long history of shady deals, charit...