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On November 2, 2022, when an agreement between the Ethiopian government and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) ended a brutal two-year war, Wekeynos Guesh was relieved.
Life had been upended in Tigray, the northernmost region of Ethiopia, when Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed sent federal troops and allied fighters from the neighbouring Amhara region and Eritrea there in November 2020.
By the second week of the war, Wekeynos, then 29, had fled his hometown of Humera and trekked for days with relatives as they braved a scorching sun and hunger to reach a camp for internally displaced…
