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As government offensive pushes forward, scars of war dot Ethiopia’s Amhara region

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By Stephen Grey GASHENA, Ethiopia (Reuters) – In a roadside village shattered by one of Africa’s bloodiest current conflicts, a donkey and its young, turbaned master tiptoe past an unexploded shell rusting by the blasted remnants of a tank, its turret and tracks tossed sideways. Ethiopian soldiers said the tank’s crew had been fighting for Tigray, the rebellious northern region battling the central government. In June, Tigrayan fighters invaded the neighbouring regions of Afar and Amhara, pushing so far south that by the end of November they were fighting near a town just 190 kilometres (118 m…

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