Ethiopia: reported resumption of large-scale fighting in the north

According to Democracy Now! headlines of September 25, 2026, heavy fighting resumed on September 24 between Ethiopian government forces and the TPLF and has since spread from the Tigray region to Afar and Amhara. Democracy Now!, citing AFP, reports that Tigrayan forces have taken control of three regional airports and carried out heavy artillery attacks on government forces. A TPLF leader told AFP that the situation is now a 'full-blown war.'

This is an update to the September 24 report of a TPLF-led offensive. The fighting comes almost four years after the November 2022 cessation-of-hostilities agreement that ended a two-year war that, according to African Union figures cited in the report, left some 600,000 people dead.

Unresolved: Democracy Now! does not say which airports were captured, and there has been no public statement from the Ethiopian government confirming the battlefield claims.