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Tigray war

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Where things stand

Federal forces and the Tigray Peace Force, a militia of a breakaway TPLF faction, entered Mekelle without fighting on Saturday after the TPLF said it had temporarily withdrawn. Fighting had escalated on 23 September; AFP reports looting in some districts.

Ethiopia's federal government and the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) have been in conflict over control of the northern Tigray region, with the TPLF now split into rival factions. A earlier war between the two sides ran from 2020 to 2022, and tensions have flared again since.

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Monday, 5 October 2026Geopolitics

Ethiopian forces take Mekelle as four neighbours close ranks in Egypt

Federal troops and allied Tigrayan fighters took Mekelle over the weekend after the TPLF pulled out. On Sunday, Egypt, Eritrea, Somalia and Sudan rejected unilateral Nile measures.

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