Fighting reported in Ethiopia after PM responds to 'attack' by regional ruling party

Abiy Ahmed says defence forces mobilised in Tigray region to save the country'

Fighting has been reported in northern Ethiopia after the country's prime minister, Abiy Ahmed, ordered a military response to an attack" by the ruling party of the restive Tigray region on a camp housing federal troops.

Analysts and diplomats have been warning for weeks that a standoff between the federal government and the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) could plunge Ethiopia into a bitter and bloody civil conflict.