Ethiopia: Tigrayan forces ‘seize strategic town in Amhara region’

TPLF fighters say they have captured Dessie, the furthest south they have reached since July

Tigrayan forces said on Saturday that they had seized the strategic town of Dessie in Ethiopia's Amhara region where tens of thousands of people have sought refuge from an escalation in the conflict.

Fighters with the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) had pushed Ethiopian government forces from Dessie and were advancing toward the town of Kombolcha, a TPLF spokesman, Getachew Reda, said by satellite phone from an undisclosed location.