Drone attack on regime-critical Tigray region

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Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed. Archive photo. Photo: Amanuel Sileshi /AP/TT

A deadly drone attack has been targeted in Tigray in Ethiopia. Regime-critical Tigray groups claim that the federal government in Addis Ababa was behind it.

The drone attack took place on Friday in Shiraro, near the border with Eritrea. “The attack led to deaths, injuries and material damage to the Tigray army,” the state’s regime-critical militia TPLF wrote in a statement on social media.

The incident is a warning about the situation between Ethiopia’s central government under Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s rule and the Tigray separatist movement TPLF.

During the civil war between the central government army and the Tigray Armed Movement in 2020-2022, around 600,000 people died in fighting and hardship. A ceasefire agreement has not been fully formalized.

Ahmed has received the Nobel Peace Prize.