In the highlands of northern Ethiopia, where ancient kingdoms once rose and fell, the fragile silence that followed one of this century's deadliest civil wars is breaking again. Tigray People's Liberation Front rebels have seized three regional airports and announced a formal opposition alliance against Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, signaling that the Pretoria Peace Agreement — which ended a war that claimed an estimated 600,000 lives — may be unraveling. The wounds of displacement, hunger, and grief that never fully healed for over a million Ethiopians now face the prospect of being torn open on
Fighting Resumes in Ethiopia's Tigray as TPLF Seizes Airports
An estimated 600,000 people were killed in the 2020-2022 civil war, with over 1 million remaining displaced; renewed fighting threatens further casualties.