Young Men Flee Tigray Amid Fears of Forced Recruitment
Years after the end of the war, unresolved tensions are again pushing young people to leave the region out of fear of being drawn into fighting.
Young men are fleeing Ethiopia's Tigray region amid fears of forced recruitment into fighting, according to a report from Al Jazeera.
The report says that years after the end of the Tigray war, unresolved tensions in the region are again leaving young people fearful of being drawn into conflict, though it does not specify which armed groups or authorities are said to be involved in recruitment efforts.
Lingering Instability
Tigray was the site of a devastating conflict between Ethiopian federal forces and regional Tigrayan forces that ended with a peace agreement in November 2022, but the region has continued to experience political and security instability in the years since.
Al Jazeera's report does not detail the scale of the movement of young men out of the region or the specific destinations they are fleeing to, and no response from Ethiopian federal or Tigrayan regional authorities was included.
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