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The UN and the US have urged Ethiopian troops and regional Tigrayan forces to restore a humanitarian truce after fresh fighting broke out for the first time in several months. The chair of the African Union Commission, Moussa Faki Mahamat, has also called for “immediate cessation of hostilities” and urged …

Forces from Ethiopia’s rebellious Tigray region said on Wednesday they were in talks to forge a military alliance with insurgents from Ethiopia’s most populous region, Oromiya, heaping pressure on the central government in Addis Ababa. The move could signal an escalation in the country’s nine-month-old war and comes a day …