Ethiopia: The Eparch of Adigrat - 'We Are Trying to Move Forward As a Church in a Context of Total Precariousness, With the Risk of a New Civil War'

Ethiopia: The Eparch of Adigrat - 'We Are Trying to Move Forward As a Church in a Context of Total Precariousness, With the Risk of a New Civil War'

Adigrat -- The bloody civil war that ravaged Tigray between 2020 and 2022 is now compounded by an internal split within the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), one of the two factions vying for control of the region. The fragile peace agreement signed in Pretoria in 2022 (see Fides, 7/8/2024) between the Addis Ababa government and representatives of the TPLF appears to have succumbed to a new wave of violence and disorder, with the growing …