Ethiopia’s pro-government forces claim capture of key town

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Days after opposition forces in Ethiopia launched an offensive against central powers in Addis Ababa, pro-government forces have turned the tables — claiming to have captured a strategic town in the northern Tigray region.

Alamata, located 120km south of the regional capital Mekelle, is an important supply hub near Tigray’s southern border with the neighbouring Amhara region.

A four-year peace deal which ended a deadly civil war is now in tatters, as fears grow the violence could ignite a broader war in the Horn of Africa — already gripped by conflicts in Sudan and the Red Sea.

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