The United Kingdom has issued a travel warning for all areas of Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region due to renewed clashes between local and federal forces.
Recent hostilities erupted in Tsemlet, western Tigray—an area also claimed by forces from the neighboring Amhara region—raising concerns of potential wider conflict.
International bodies, including the UN Secretary-General, the African Union, and the European Union, have called for restraint.
The UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office advised its citizens to avoid all travel to Tigray, following the escalation of violence, which included drone attacks killing a truck driver in central Tigray.
Flights to the region have been suspended since Thursday, and the Ethiopian federal army has not yet commented on the situation. Tigray remains sensitive following a brutal war three years ago, which the African Union estimates resulted in at least 600,000 deaths.
