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Ethiopian federal forces have regained control of the Tigray rebels’ regional capital, local sources said on Sunday, while Ethiopia’s regional rivals gathered in Egypt to discuss the risk of a wider war. <\/em><\/p>\n The capture of Mekelle<\/a>, capital of Tigray, deals a major blow to the opposition alliance that rules the northern region.<\/p>\n The Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), which leads the alliance, said in a statement<\/a> posted on Facebook it had retreated from the capital and that the regional…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Ethiopian federal forces have regained control of the Tigray rebels’ regional capital, local sources said on Sunday, while Ethiopia’s regional rivals gathered in Egypt to discuss the risk of a wider war. The capture of Mekelle, capital of Tigray, deals a major blow to the opposition alliance that rules the northern region. The Tigray People’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":246742,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00611253:e3785d0eadd0f4d90e61a866ac528e46:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[258,256,6959,19202,4697,415,4716,6508,257,4268,10195,254,4790],"class_list":["post-246741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-capital","tag-captures","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-ethiopia","tag-meet","tag-news","tag-regional","tag-rivals","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tigray"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00611253:e3785d0eadd0f4d90e61a866ac528e46:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246741\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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