The United Nations said Monday that the Human Rights Situation in Eritrea remains "dire" and shows "no sign of improvement". The Horn of Africa country has an open-ended universal conscription policy, which intensified "following the conflict in Tigray" in northern Ethiopia. Eritrean troops have been supporting Ethiopian government forces in their November 2020 offensive against the rebel authorities in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia, which are part of the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), a sworn enemy of the regime in Asmara. The United States and human rights organizations have accused them of committing atrocities during the conflict, including the massacre of hundreds of civilians, notably in the town of Aksum and the village of Dengolat. The African Union's envoy for the Horn of Africa, Olusegun Obasanjo, said in mid-January that up to 600,000 people had been killed. Issaias Afeworki dismissed accusations of human rights

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