Tigray, Ethiopia, and other African wars

The federal troops did badly in the early days of the war, but turned the tide after Abiy Ahmed acquired military drones from abroad. In the end, numbers, technology, and a ruthless food blockade that has reduced Tigrayans to near starvation are overwhelming the rebels.

The rebel province of Tigray, despite having only five million of Ethiopia’s 120 million people, has waged a three-year struggle against the federal prime minister, Abiy Ahmed. Tigray is going under, writes Gwynne Dyer.Photograph courtesy of Flickr

Opinion

BY GWYNNE DYER

October 19, 2022

LONDON, U.K.—When writing about the Tigray-Ethiopia struggle or any other war in Africa, the first paragraph should always point out that 85 per cent of Africa’s 55 countries are at peace. Africa is not a continent at war. That said, it is also true that almost all the ongoing wars that are kil...

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