Hundreds flee fighting in northern Ethiopia as fears rise of return to civil war
There are concerns of a full-scale conflict once again as a peace deal has not been fully implemented.
Hundreds of Ethiopians from the Tigray region have fled to Sudan following intense clashes between regional forces and the Ethiopian army. The fighting, which broke out on Saturday near the border with Sudan, involved heavy artillery and drones. This marks one of the most serious confrontations since the end of the two-year civil war in northern Ethiopia in 2022, which left hundreds of thousands dead.
The African Union-brokered peace deal has not been fully implemented, raising concerns of a potential return to full-scale conflict. The Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) and the Ethiopian federal government blamed each other for the clashes, with the TPLF accusing the federal government of launching an "open war" in violation of the peace agreement.
The federal government, through its minister Abraham Belay, accused the TPLF of starting the fighting and warned of worse consequences if the conflict persisted. Sudanese medical and local sources reported that civilians and wounded fighters were fleeing across the border in response to the violence.
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