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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Politics
Shola Lawal

Why Ethiopia’s Tigray could be on the brink of another conflict

Former Tigrayan fighters wounded in the recent war wait to be tended to at the Ortho-Physiotherapy Centre in Mekelle in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia on February 14, 2025 [Amanuel Birhane/AP Photo]

An eerily familiar set of headlines is making the rounds in Ethiopia, troubling many in the fragile, northern Tigray region.

Successive delegations of civil society and religious leaders have, in recent weeks, travelled to the Tigrayan capital, Mekelle, for “dialogue”. For some, it is a reminder of the events that played out in the final weeks before Tigray descended into war in November 2020.

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