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The Tigray War is an ongoing civil war that began on 3 November 2020 in the Tigray Region of Ethiopia. The war is primarily being fought by the Ethiopian federal government and Eritrea on one side, and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) on the other.In 2019, to distance the country from ethnic federalism and ethnic nationalist politics, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed merged the ethnic and region-based constituent parties of the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) coalition and several opposition parties into his new Prosperity Party. The Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), a politically powerful entity that had dominated Ethiopian politics for 27 years through a one-party dominant system, refused to join the new party. After the general elections (scheduled for 2020) were postponed to 2021 due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, the TPLF claimed that this made Abiy an illegitimate ruler. The TPLF, led by its chairman Debretsion Gebremichael, went ahead with regional elections in Tigray in September 2020 in defiance of the federal government, which declared the Tigray election illegal.Fighting between Tigray forces and the federal government began on 3 November 2020, when Tigrayan security forces attacked the ENDF Northern Command bases and headquarters in the Tigray Region. The ENDF counterattacked in Tigray from the south (while Eritrean forces started launching attacks from the north), which Prime Minister Abiy described as "law enforcement operations." Federal allied forces captured Mekelle, the capital of the Tigray Region, on 28 November, after which Abiy declared the operation "over." However, the Tigray government stated soon afterwards that it would continue fighting until the "invaders" were out, and on 28 June 2021, the Tigray Defense Forces retook Mekelle; by July the same year, they had also advanced into the Amhara and Afar regions.In early November 2021, the TDF together with the Oromo Liberation Army (OLA) took control of several towns on the highway south from Tigray Region towards Addis Ababa, and the TPLF stated that it was "considering marching on Addis Ababa." Together with seven smaller rebel groups, the TPLF and OLA declared a coalition aiming to "dismantle Abiy's government by force or by negotiations, and then form a transitional authority." After a government counter-offensive in response, and then a series of negotiations with the TPLF, Ethiopia declared an indefinite humanitarian truce on 24 March 2022, in order to allow the delivery of humanitarian aid into Tigray. However, fighting re-escalated by August 2022 as peace talks broke down, and war had resumed.All sides, particularly the ENDF, EDF, and TDF have committed war crimes during the conflict. Mass extrajudicial killings of civilians have taken place throughout, including in Adigrat, Hagere Selam, the Hitsats refugee camp, Humera, Mai Kadra, the Debre Abbay monastery, and Axum. At least 300,000-500,000 people have been killed, and war rape became a "daily" occurrence, with girls as young as 8 and women as old as 72 being raped, often in front of their families. A major humanitarian crisis has developed as a result of the war, with famine becoming widespread. A number of peace and mediation proposals have been made throughout the war, including an emergency Intergovernmental Authority on Development summit that met in 20 December 2020, but as of October 2022, fighting has continued.