Ethiopia’s Foretold War Arrives

No one can claim that a return to war in Tigray and northern Ethiopia is a surprise, but it makes it no less horrifying. In just a handful of days, and after months of spiralling tensions and sporadic fighting, the ‘grey conflict’ the federal government pursued against Tigray has escalated into ‘‘full-blown war,’ in the words of Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) vice president Ammanuel Assefa. The atrocities of the Tigray war are all too recent in the mind; the estimated deaths of 600,000 people, massacres at Axum and Adigrat, the incessant drone strikes on schools, hospitals, and industry, the […] The post Ethiopia’s Foretold War Arrives appeared first on African Arguments.