Fresh Hostilities in Tigray, and a Warning About the Wider Region

Fighting has resumed in Ethiopia's Tigray region, Deutsche Welle reports, coming after months of growing animosity between rebel forces and the federal government. DW relays a warning from Horn of Africa expert Martin Plaut that the conflict could spill over regionally — the possibility, rather than the certainty, is the point of his caution. A fight inside one country with a plausible edge outside it is what makes the story worth following beyond Ethiopia's borders.