00:00Ethiopia's Tigray forces have seized control of several airports as fighting spread into the neighboring Afar region.
00:08Sources indicate that clashes broke out late Tuesday in the towns of Abala and Erebti,
00:13with the Tigrayan forces reportedly taking control of several locations.
00:17The Tigray regional government says it was responding to what it called intensive bombardments by federal forces,
00:24including airstrikes, drones and artillery.
00:26Tigrayan forces have also taken control of airports in Mekele and Shire and reportedly assume
00:33Ethiopian Airlines has suspended flight to all the three cities.
00:38The new violence is raising fears of a return to the devastating civil war that ended with a peace deal
00:44in 2022.
00:45That conflict killed an estimated 600,000 people, according to African Union figures,
00:51while around one million people remained displaced.
00:54On Sunday, the TPLF announced it had joined a new alliance of anti-government armed groups
01:00from across Ethiopia, which faces multiple insurgencies, including in its own most populous regions, Oromia and Amhara.
01:09The TPLF ruled the whole of Ethiopia from 1991 to 2018,
01:13before being saline with the rise of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, eventually triggering the civil war.
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