Ethiopia’s Civil War Is Heating Up Once Again
- Air strike on Tuesday killed at least six people: officials
- Tens of thousands of people have been forced to flee homes
Members of the Afar militia stand at a checkpoint in the town of Abala, 480 kilometers of Semera, Ethiopia, on June 8.
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Hostilities in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region escalated as air strikes and the mobilization of troops in towns on either side of the border with neighboring Eritrea forced tens of thousands more people to flee their homes.
The renewed hostilities after a five-month ceasefire threaten to hamper Ethiopia’s negotiations with the International Monetary Fund for a new loan and inflame regional tensions in the two-year-long conflict.