A resumption of the conflict in Ethiopia's war-torn Tigray region following the collapse of a five-month ceasefire is untenable as loss of lives continue because of the conflict and hunger continues to claim more. Abiy Ahmed launched an attack on the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), former rulers of the semi-autonomous region and which ruled Ethiopia for almost three decades until he assumed power in 2018. Concern about a full-fledged flare-upReuters reports that allied Ethiopian and Eritrean government troops attacked Tigrayan forces on Thursday inside the northern Ethiopian region of Tigray and that the Ethiopian government has blamed the TPLF for the renewed violence. Everything has been destroyed," Bishop Tesfaselassie Medhin of Adigrat in Ethiopia's war-torn Tigray region had earlier this year told Fides. As a result, 5.2 million people are forced to suffer with severe malnutrition, hunger and near famine," he said.

Source: Ethiopian News September 08, 2022 17:06 UTC