US EditionFlare-up in Tigray Highlights Risk of More War in Northern Ethiopia
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Recent drone strikes and warm-ups between the Federal Army and the Tigray Defence Forces are alarming a possible resurgence of the war that ravaged the northern part of the country between 2020 and 2022. The point of no return has not been crossed.
Tigray edges closer to war– again
With the threat of war inching closer, a starkly divided Horn of Africa threatens to refract across any renewed Ethiopian civil war as well. Source: Sahan – the Ethiopian Cable A brief resumption of fighting in Western Tigray between Tigrayan and federal troops last week has returned the fraught context of northern Ethiopia back to the precipice of full-blown conflict. Details remain murky, but for at least three days, deadly clashes flared in t…
Since 26 January 2026, new clashes have erupted in this region of northern Ethiopia, which experienced a bloody war between 2020 and 2022, and where the central government would like to set up authorities that would be favourable to it. All flights to the northern province have been suspended.
Three years after the end of the war that ravaged Tigray, new clashes between the Federal Army and the Tigray forces rekindle fears of military escalation. Recent fighting, reported strikes and suspension of flights fuel the concern of a population still deeply affected by the previous conflict.
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