Apparent Drone Strikes Hit Addis Ababa as Fighting Kills Scores in Northern Ethiopia
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Updated · The Washington Post · Oct 3
Apparent Drone Strikes Hit Addis Ababa as Fighting Kills Scores in Northern Ethiopia
3 articles · Updated · The Washington Post · Oct 3
Summary
Explosions in Addis Ababa this week marked a rare direct attack on Ethiopia’s capital, with apparent drone strikes signaling that renewed fighting has spread rapidly.
Scores of civilians have been killed in recent days in clashes between government troops and rebel groups in northern Ethiopia, underscoring the conflict’s escalating intensity.
Lalibela, a major pilgrimage site, is now being drawn into the violence as fighting spills south from the north.
The widening conflict threatens to inflame overlapping wars across the Horn of Africa and deepen instability in a region already mired in multiple conflicts.