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Ethiopia's Afar region says under attack from Tigrayan forces

One of the fighters loyal to the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF). [AP]

Ethiopia's Afar region said late Wednesday it was under attack from forces of the neighbouring Tigray region, saying they had seized villages and bombed civilians in the latest sign of internal conflict in the fractured nation.

Rebels in the northern Tigray region fought a devastating civil war against the central government from 2020 to 2022 in which an estimated 600,000 people died, and relations with the capital and other regions remain tense.

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