Ethiopia declared a state of emergency on Tuesday after the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) said they captured the towns of Dessie and Kombolcha in the Amhara region, Al Jazeera reports. The towns are some 400km (250 miles) from the capital, and TPLF forces have indicated they may advance south towards Addis Ababa. Government and Tigray forces have been fighting for a year now, and there is a communication blackout in most of northern Ethiopia. UN General-Secretary António Guterres called for an immediate cessation of hostilities. The US Special Envoy for Horn of Africa Jeffrey Feltman will travel to Ethiopia on Thursday for talks, Reuters report, two days after US president Joe Biden said he would strip Ethiopia of duty-free access to the United States over alleged human rights abuses in Tigray.
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