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It's a fairly similar situation to Yemen, with the government (or what's left of it at this point) and their allies (like Saudi Arabia) exerting a blockade over Houthi-controlled regions, which is slowly killing off hundreds of thousands of people through starvation & disease
This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 92%. (I'm a bot)


The civil war in Ethiopia has resulted in the death of some 600,000 civilians, a staggering estimate for a conflict that has lasted only two years and has been focused on a single region, Tigray, of around six million inhabitants.
Placing a precise figure on the number of deaths caused by the war is difficult, as both sides tend to either exaggerate or play down fatalities.
Taking into account the estimated numbers, the war in Ethiopia is one of the deadliest of the 21st century.


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Why was there a civil war in the first place? It says the Tigray wanted independence but doesn’t say why.
I saw a protest about this in London and there were signs claiming the UAE had involvement. >

To summarize quickly, the Tigrayan party, the TPLF, used to rule over Ethiopia, along with some other ethnic parties. From 2018 onwards, this coalition broke down and Ethiopia went on a path of democratization, which culminated with Ahmed Abiy election as prime minister. He would win the Nobel Peace Prize for ending the conflict with Eritrea, but other ethnic groups, such as the Tigrayans, did not join his ruling coalition, mainly because Tigray, at the border with Eritrea, resented the peace plan.
in 2020 the TPLF went on to hold elections for the Tigray region, but Ahmed wanted to delay the elections because of COVID, pretty much indefinetly. TPLF went ahead with the vote anyway, and tensions soared. It's a bit unclear what happened, but it seemed Tigrayan militias attacked an Ethiopian Defence Forces (EDF) base. EDF invaded the region and quickly secured the capital, along with Eritrea which invaded from the north. After months of fighting, the EDF were broken by TPLF resistance who went on the march to the Ethiopian capital, having secured an alliance with other ethnic militias like the Oromo liberation army, but they were stopped before they could get there, and pretty much retreated into Tigrayan borders.
The hostilities between the EDF and TPLF are now pretty much over, but Eritrea still holds on to some tigrayan towns, the OLA is still a problem for the central government, and the war (and mostly the famine induced by it EDIT: the famine was mainly caused by a blockade from the federal government) have taken an absurdly massive toll on the country, mostly in Tigray.
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So the deaths are more from famine than the actual fighting itself? Non-combatants being starved to death en masse?