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2022-09-02 Africa Horn
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TPLF says Ethiopian, Eritrean forces attack in northwest Tigray
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[ShabelleMedia] Æthiopian and Eritrea
...is run by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), with about the amounts of democracy and justice you'd expect from a party with that name. National elections have been periodically scheduled and cancelled; none have ever been held in the country. The president, Isaias Afewerki, has been in office since independence in 1993 and will probably die there of old age...
n government forces launched an attack in Æthiopia’s northern region of Tigray on Thursday targeting Tigrayan forces, a spokesperson for the Tigrayan forces said, although Rooters was not able to independently verify the report.
Getachew Reda, the Tigrayan force’s spokesperson, said on Twitter that the two "forces have launched a massive four-pronged offensive early this morning in the #Adyabo area of Northwestern Tigray!"
Æthiopian government spokesperson Legesse Tulu, military spokesperson Colonel Getnet Adane and the prime minister’s spokesperson Billene Seyoum did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Eritrean Information Minister Yemane Gebremeskel also did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
The government issued a statement on Wednesday accusing the Tigrayan forces of launching multiple attacks on government forces.
Both sides blame each other for breaking a ceasefire.
The conflict in Æthiopia has roiled the region and destabilized Africa’s second-most populous country, a diplomatic heavyweight that hosts the African Union
...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful...
and provides peacekeepers to several of its fragile neighbors.
Rooters was not able to independently confirm Getachew’s report or ascertain who started the fighting because Tigray has not had telephone links since government troops pulled out more than a year ago.
A humanitarian worker in the Tigrayan town of Shire told Rooters that drivers coming from the area reported cross-border shelling on Wednesday, and he had spoken to a witness who said heavy artillery shelling in the town of Shiraro near the Eritrean border had started at around 4:30 a.m. on Thursday.
A militia leader in the Amhara city of Gondar with contacts on the front lines of the fighting confirmed there had been "heavy shelling from our side" aimed at Tigrayan trenches around the town of Shiraro, in the same area. 
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