Ethiopia's army recaptures the town of Chifra from Tigrayan forces after Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed appeared on the frontlines two days ago
The war in Ethiopia, Africa’s second-most populous nation, has killed an estimated tens of thousands of people.
"Ethiopian Defense Forces and Afar Special Forces have controlled Chifra," the Ethiopian Broadcasting Corporation said on its Twitter account on Sunday. Chifra is west of the town of Mille, which Tigrayan forces have been trying to capture for weeks, because it lies along the highway linking landlocked Ethiopia to Djibouti, the Horn of Africa's main port.State-affiliated Fana Broadcasting reported on Friday that Abiy was on the frontline with the army fighting the Tigrayan forces in Afar.
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