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Vol 67 No 3

Published 6th February 2026


Ethiopia

Tigray’s cold war with Addis heats up

Clashes in the disputed western areas risk igniting a wider conflict across the Horn, drawing in outside sponsors

A new war in Tigray – one that could again pull in Eritrea – is looking more likely after clashes broke out on 27 January between Tigrayan forces and Ethiopian federal troops. As in the two year conflict that ended in November 2022, federal forces fought alongside Amhara militias in Tselemti, a disputed area of Tigray now held by the federal government after Amhara fighters seized it when the last war began in 2020.

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