The international community should rally around former Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo’s African Union-led peace mission in Ethiopia, or risk all-out civil war, and even a regional conflagration that will draw in Sudan.

This is the import of a new report on the war between the federal government in Addis Ababa and the northern Tigray region. The report was issued on Tuesday (October 25, 2021) by the Brussels-based International Crisis Group (ICG).