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Tigray War
War in northern Ethiopia involving federal, regional and Eritrean forces, with severe humanitarian consequences.
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Overview adapted from a Wikipedia summary and stored locally on May 11, 2026.
The Tigray war, also referred to in some academic and policy sources as the northern Ethiopia conflict, was an armed conflict that lasted from 3 November 2020 to 3 November 2022. It was a civil war primarily fought in the Tigray Region of Ethiopia between forces allied with the Ethiopian federal government and Eritrea on one side, and the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) on the other.
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2020-2022historical border era
Pandemic-era wars and invasion shock
Wars in Ethiopia, Myanmar and Ukraine show state collapse, mass mobilization and renewed interstate war.
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