🇪🇹⚡- Heavy clashes have erupted in the Aba'ala region along the Tigray-Afar regional border, northern Ethiopia. Rerum Novarum have previously documented the sparsely populated Afar border region as a known TDF hub with a significant TDF presence, and have tracked the emergence of local pro-Addis Ababa and anti-TDF Afar militias.