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Ethiopia's Tigray Crisis: Why Young Women Took up Arms to Fight Abiy Ahmed's Government

Fear of sexual violence and witnessing atrocities drove many young Tigrayan women to join the Tigray Defence Forces during the 2020–22 conflict, with 600,000 killed overall, officials said.

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Female fighters recall how the conflict in the northern Tigray destroyed their lives, as fears grow that fighting could resume.

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A senior Tigray official, a regional state in the north of the country, accused the Ethiopian authorities this Wednesday, March 4, 2026 of preparing "to launch a war in Tigray". An increasingly tense climate that raised fears of a new conflict.

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"We do not want war." It is with these words that Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed wanted to reassure, on Thursday, March 5, 2026, as tensions rise dangerously in the region of Tigray, the northernmost region of the country. A statement that comes three years after the end of a deadly conflict between 2020 and 2022 between the Ethiopian Federal Army, supported by local militias and Eritrean soldiers, to the forces of the Front for the Liberat…

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