🇪🇷🇮🇱⚡- Afar separatists from the Afar region of eastern Eritrea have reached out to Israel for help, Israeli media Ynet (Yediot Ahronoth) reports.

Afar separatists, emboldened by Somaliland's recognition of independence, cite "regional threats," including the threat allegedly poised by the Houthis in Yemen as a reason for seeking Tel Aviv support in independence. Afar separatists have also accused the ruling government of Eritrea of "human right abuses" in a recent conference in Ethiopia.

A recent paper published by the Institute for Security Studies: Africa, ISS-Africa, accused the Houthis of smuggling weapons into the Afar region of Eritrea, arming "armed-actors" sympathetic to the Ansarullah.

The development comes amid regional tensions between Ethiopia and Eritrea, in which officials from Addis Ababa have made it quite public that they eye the port city of Assab in the Afar region.