There's almost no one left in Abala, a once-bustling town on the border of Ethiopia's northern Tigray and Afar regions. The two Tigrayan residents from Abala described bleak conditions at the detention site in Semera, where temperatures regularly soar past 40 degrees celsius. TPLF takes overMost of the ethnic Afar residents of Abala interviewed by The New Humanitarian said Tigrayan rebel forces shelled the town before they entered it, killing several people. "When we came back, the TPLF were looting," he said, sitting on a broken pavement amid the ruins of the town. A fragile ceasefireSince the TPLF left Abala and other parts of Afar, there has been a lull in fighting across Ethiopia.

Source: Ethiopian News June 03, 2022 17:23 UTC