The rebel Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) has withdrawn its forces from the Amhara region in northern Ethiopia after heavy fighting lasted for a month.
In a statement issued on Monday, TPLF said it has made a strategic retreat and the withdrawal is initiated not due to pressure from the battlefield against federal forces.
“In consideration of the current objective situation on the ground, we have made changes to the directions [spatial] and location of our forces,” it said.
TPLF added that its forces have been implementing the changes for the past three days.
The change is made “to reliably resist” what is called “invading joint forces.”
The Ethiopian government has not commented.
Kobo area, which is within the Amhara region of Ethiopia, came under the TPLF forces for the second time when just a day after they launched a round of attacks against Ethiopian forces on August 24, 2022.
The TPLF withdrawal came days after reports of intense fighting just south of the Kobo area which was going on for well over two weeks now.
Also, earlier this week, the TPLF accused the Eritrean Air Force of carrying out an air strike in a residential area in Adi – Daero area in the Northwest part of Tigray.
The Ethiopian government has dismissed this TPLF claim of a strike targeting civilian areas, saying its own fighter planes had carried out the attack in Adi-Daero, implying that it was not Eritrea.
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