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Fano’s battlefield gains show Abiy’s shaky grip on the regions

Federal government is pushed back hard as opposition forces in Amhara, Oromo and Tigray form a loose anti-regime front, redrawing the political map in the Horn

After recent victories by insurgents in Amhara, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s government has been showing signs of the strain as its opponents join forces and launch heavier challenges. In a 2 October letter to the UN, the Foreign Ministry accused the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) and Eritrea of ‘funding, mobilising, and directing’ Fano forces’ successful offensives in the North Wollo area. The TPLF had fought against Addis Ababa and its Eritrean and Fano allies in the 2020–22 Tigray war which ended with the Pretoria Agreement.

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