Ethiopia’s Tigray crisis: Heavy fighting reported

Substantial battling has broken out in a few regions in Ethiopia’s northern locale of Tigray among dissidents and government troops, reports say.

The revolutionary Tigray Defense Force (TDF) said it had held onto a few towns, where witnesses have told the BBC they have seen its warriors watching.

The government Ethiopian armed force excused the case, saying it was phony information.

This is the most significant battling since November, when the Ethiopian government proclaimed triumph in the…