In Tigray, the Historic Drought Adds to the Threat of a New War Against Addis Ababa

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The lack of rain in recent months, the most severe ever recorded, has struck a region that is struggling to recover from the conflict of 2020-2022. Tensions with the federal government have been rekindling since MayCows, so thin that their bones threaten to pierce their skin, wander on stony fields, in search of the slightest bit of grass. "We can't harvest anything because the crops have dried because of the lack of rain," laments Futsimti Tesf…