Tigray Conflict Escalation and Ceasefire Collapse

Hybrid warfare intensifies with Zalambesa incursion, Tsimdo alliance, and heavy weapons deployment. Ceasefire effectively broken; civilian displacement to Sudan, forced recruitment, and potential Eritrean/Sudanese involvement. TPLF elite power retention identified as key obstacle to peace. New analysis reveals the conflict is becoming a proxy war with Egypt, Eritrea, and others backing factions, and a religious dimension (drone strikes on Orthodox monasteries, Abiy's Pentecostalism) deepens divisions.