The war continues expanding, with displacements, ethnic killings and mass rape in the increasingly devastated region. By the beginning of 2021, the war in the Tigray region of Ethiopia, then more than a month old, had forced tens of thousands of people to flee across the border to Sudan. The war broke out in the Tigray region in late 2020 between the federal government and local Tigrayan forces. A national election in June re-established the authority of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, who then had control of the Tigray Region. About a week later, Tigrayan forces re-captured the region and the war escalated, now engulfing many areas beyond Tigray.

Source: Ethiopian News December 30, 2021 07:47 UTC