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TPLF – ‘Abiy risks absolute disintegration of the Ethiopian state’

Fresh fighting has disrupted the humanitarian truce in northern Ethiopia, between the government and Tigrayan forces.

The five-month humanitarian truce in Ethiopia has now been disrupted by renewed fighting in the north, with the Ethiopian government accusing rebel Tigrayan forces of starting it. The TPLF have denied this.

Also in Angola, citizens await the election outcome as provisional results suggest that President João Lourenço's governing party, MPLA, has the lead with 80% of votes counted according to the National Election Commission while the opposition movement, Unita, has just under 43%.

Plus, the President of France, Emmanuel Macron is in Algeria on a three-day visit. As he proceeds with the welcoming aplomb, the BBC Focus on Africa programme explores the effect of a controversial statement made by the president, where he is reported to have intimated that “Algeria was not a country pre-French colonisation”- which is said to have upset millions of Algerians

Photo: Members of the Afar militia in Ethiopia. Credit: Getty Images

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