8 May 2026
8 May 2026
Tigray installs a rival government and Trump’s Red Sea move hands the TPLF an opening, leaving Abiy Ahmed boxed in
As the United States repositions itself in the Horn of Africa, an emboldened Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) is stepping up its struggle with Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed. Angry at Addis Ababa’s unilateral one-year extension of the term of Tigray’s interim leader Lieutenant General Tadesse Werede, the TPLF’s Central Committee has restored the regional legislative council deemed unconstitutional by the federal government in the run-up to the Tigray-Addis Ababa war in 2020.
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