Ethiopia says Tigray forces beaten in Afar; Tigrayans deny
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Rival sides offer conflicting accounts as 10-month conflict in northern Ethiopia drags on.
Ethiopia’s federal government has said rival forces from the war-hit Tigray region had been beaten in neighbouring Afar region and had withdrawn, but the Tigrayan forces said they had simply redeployed troops to next-door Amhara region for an offensive there. “The TPLF force has left Afar,” foreign ministry spokesperson Dina Mufti told reporters at a news conference in the capital, Addis Ababa, referring to the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), which ruled Ethiopia for three decades but was the northern region’s ruling party when fighting broke out in November 2020. “According to a military information, they were defeated and they left,” he said.More Related News