the irish times: War in Tigray threatens to end Ethiopian PM Abiy Ahmed’s dream of unity

“They put a gun in my mouth,” he adds, before stabbing him and leaving him for dead in the street.

Abiy himself conceded recently that the war had dragged on much longer than he expected. TPLF fighters, he said, had dispersed “like flour in the winds”. He added that the federal army was fighting a guerrilla war on at least eight separate fronts across the country.