Originally published at National Catholic Register
Fears of renewed violence are linked to the split in the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) — the party that fought against Ethiopia’s federal army during the two-year war and runs Tigray’s postwar interim administration.
Tension is brewing in Ethiopia’s northernmost territory, the Tigray region, a source has told ACI Africa, CNA’s news partner in Africa, confirming media reports that “experts” from the Horn of Africa nation are warning of a war between Ethiopia and Eritrea.
“We have not yet received any official confirmation from Church leaders, but we have heard reports that the situation is unstable,” the source said on March 15.
As an indication of the growing tension in Tigray, the source said “flights have been cancelled.”
According to Reuters, there is “fresh instability” in Ethiopia’s northernmost region, where a two-year civil war that ended with a November 2022 peace deal resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands.
In a Reuters report on March 13, Gen. Tsadkan Gebretensae, a vice president in the interim administration in the Tigray region, is quoted as telling the Africa-focused magazine The Africa Report that
