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On 29 October 2020, the TPLF rejected the federal government's appointment of new leadership for the ENDF's Northern Command. Three officers, Brig. Gen Belay Seyoum Akele, the new Commander of the Northern Command, and one of his deputies Brig. Gen. Seid Tekuye, as well as Lt. Gen. Molla Haile Mariam, were told by TPLF to cancel their flights to Mekelle.
The TDF offensive started on 12 July 2021 resulted in Tigrayan forces capturing southern Tigray, including the towns of Alamata and Korem. [6] The TDF subsequently crossed the Tekezé River and advanced westward, capturing the town of Mai Tsebri and prompting Amhara officials to call on its militias to arm themselves and mobilize.
On 22 June 2021, there was an airstrike by the Ethiopian Air Force on the town of Togoga in the Tigray Region of Ethiopia on market day during the Tigray War on 22 June 2021. 64 people were killed and 180 others were injured.
Timeline of the Tigray war (July 2021–November 2022) This page was last edited on 18 February 2024, at 12:50 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...
The Tigray war [b] was an armed conflict that lasted from 3 November 2020 [a] to 3 November 2022. [44] [45] It was a civil war [46] that was primarily fought in the Tigray Region of Ethiopia between forces allied to the Ethiopian federal government and Eritrea on one side, and the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) on the other. [47] [48]
The siege of Tigray was part of the war in Tigray, the government-led siege on its people in northern Ethiopia's Tigray Region.. After Tigray Defense Forces (TDF) retook most parts of Tigray including the city of Mekelle on 28 June 2021, after eight months since the outbreak of the Tigray war in November 2020, the government of Ethiopia began to siege all parts of Tigray under control of TDF.
The ENDF and its allies were able to push TDF forces back from Debre Sina, Amhara to Alamata, Tigray (≈400 km). The Ethiopian government announced the campaign for national unity was a success and had been completed on 23 December 2021. [5]
In November 2021, the Somali State Resistance allied with the Tigray People's Liberation Front and UFEFCF. [ 109 ] [ 110 ] [ 111 ] In July 2022, the Islamist militant group al-Shabaab launched an invasion from Somalia into Ethiopia's Somali Region ; the invasion was the largest attack by al-Shabaab in Ethiopian territory to date.