Ethiopia teeters on the brink of civil war

An armed confrontation between the federal government and Tigray region threatens to evolve into a bloody conflict

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  • Sleepwalking into civil war
  • Military test
  • Eritrea connection
  • End of ethnonationalism?
  • Authoritarian drift?

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