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Two Presidents, No Government: Why Tigray’s War Is Coming Back

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Two Presidents, No Government: Why Tigray’s War Is Coming Back
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In Mekelle, the capital of Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region, two men call themselves president. One is Lieutenant General Tadesse Worede, appointed with Addis Ababa’s approval to run the region until elections could be held. The other is Debretsion Gebremichael, chairman of the party that governed Tigray for decades and led it through a war (2020-2022) that killed an estimated 600,000 people and displaced two to three million. On 5 May, a regional council that had not met in more th

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