Ethiopia's Tigray taps Muslim past in propaganda push

Amongst Tigray's five percent Muslim-minority, Tigrinya speakers writing in Arabic have sought to remind people about the role the region played as one of the first Islamic settlements and as a refuge for early Muslims fleeing Mecca.

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Ethiopia's Tigray taps Muslim past in propaganda push
By NewVision Reporter
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Rebels from Ethiopia's Tigray region are drawing on early Islamic history in an Arabic-language propaganda push to rally solidarity among Muslims online for their battle against the government.

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