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Flights resumed on Tuesday between Addis Ababa and Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region, five days after renewed fighting prompted their suspension, according to tracking data and a local official.
The official, speaking on condition of anonymity, told AFP that flights would resume early Tuesday. Data from the Flightradar platform indicated that at least two aircraft departed the federal capital for the Tigrayan cities of Mekele and Shire.
A security source, also speaking anonymously, said on Monday that clashes in the region “appeared to have calmed” and that no drone attacks had been reported that day.
Tigray was the epicentre of a brutal civil war between regional and federal forces from 2020 to 2022, a conflict estimated to have killed more than 600,000 people. Although hostilities formally ended with the Pretoria Agreement, tensions persist, with several underlying disputes unresolved.
Fresh fighting erupted last week in the contested Tselemt area of western Tigray and in the neighbouring Afar region to the east. Reports from the area spoke of drone and air strikes, while a humanitarian source described the displacement of “tens of thousands” of civilians.
Independent verification of events has remained difficult. The Ethiopian government has declined to comment publicly on the latest clashes, limiting clarity on the scale and impact of the fighting.
Flights were suspended on Thursday, raising fears among residents of a return to the strict isolation imposed on Tigray at the height of the civil war, when communications and transport links were severed for months.
