Ethiopian forces have recaptured key towns on the road to Tigray
But it is far from clear that Abiy Ahmed has defeated the Tigrayan rebels
BURNT-OUT TANKS and fresh trenches. Makeshift fortifications cobbled out of fieldstone. And litter, everywhere, strewn by two armies: bullets, bottles, biscuit wrappers and the muddy pages of a notebook with poetry scrawled in smudged ink.
This article appeared in the Middle East & Africa section of the print edition under the headline “Back to the mountains”
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