She grabbed Tahir and another son before fleeing on foot to safety, dodging an artillery assault allegedly carried out by Tigrayan rebels on her village in northern Ethiopia's Afar region. She worries she has lost them forever to what has quietly emerged as the most active front in Ethiopia's grinding war. - Outgunned -The war erupted in Ethiopia's northernmost Tigray region in November 2020, but Afar did not see combat until July 2021 when the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) rebel group expanded its operations. The whole lot," said Valerie Browning, an aid worker who has lived in Afar for more than three decades. "The TPLF has chosen the path of destruction, not the path of peace," said Ahmed Nuro, a local official in the border town of Abala.

Source: Ethiopian News February 18, 2022 06:33 UTC