Ethiopia’s Tigray war is one of a series of other crises
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The Africa Report
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October 13, 2022 15:17
A fighter loyal to the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) walks along a street in the town of Hawzen, on 7 May 2021, then-controlled by the group but later re-taken by government forces, in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)
The Tigray conflict has dominated headlines about Ethiopia for nearly two years. Since it broke out in November 2020, the war has seen hundreds of thousands of troops mobilised, wreaked havoc on the economy and at one point threatened to envelop the national capital, Addis Ababa. But it’s not an isolated conflict. It is one in a series of crises tearing at the fabric of Ethiopia.
Ethiopia’s Tigray conflict has also been marked by widespread human rights abuses that have drawn sharp condemnation from international partners such as the United States and European Union, who have suspended budgetary support.
But the Tigray war is one of many that are beset by ethno-nationalist insurgencies, elite competition, intercommunal violence and a severe drought. These have uprooted whole communities and left millions in need of aid.
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