France, Jan. 30 -- Clashes have taken place in recent days between Tigrayan forces and the Ethiopian federal army in the remote area of ​​Tsemlet, western Tigray.

Occupied by the authorities of the neighbouring Amhara region since the war, this territory has been regularly plagued by fighting since 2023.

Diplomatic and government sources acknowledged that the clashes broke out in the disputed westernTigray earlier this week.

In a letter addressed to the chairperson of the African Union Commission, Mahmoud Ali Youssouf,the Tigrayan interim administration calls for "immediate action to avoid an imminent war".

"The repercussions of a new conflict would be catastrophic and irreversible" and "would plunge the region into a wide...