Attacks by new rebel alliance stoke fear Ethiopia is returning to war

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New rebel alliances in Ethiopia's Tigray region have launched attacks amid fears of a renewed war. The Tigray rebels claim they are responding to a full-scale government offensive, while the government accuses the rebels of initiating the violence, escalating tensions that could destabilize the region further.

Tigray rebels said they were responding to a "full-scale offensive" by the government, which countered that it was the rebels who started the fighting.