Ethiopia is perilously close to another war

The silencing of the guns in Tigray, a northern region of Ethiopia in which hundreds of thousands of people may have died in a brutal civil war between 2020 and 2022, was a rare example of peacemaking by America and its allies in the Biden years. In November 2022 Western and African officials, fearful that separatist pressures in Tigray might break apart Africa’s second-most-populous country, forced the Ethiopian government and Tigray’s rulers, the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), to come to terms.