Tigray is now peaceful but war’s effects linger ... Haile Gebre Kirstos, 70, continued to plough his parched land and plant sorghum in a village in Messebo, although rain fell “only two ...

"I don't want my son to risk his life by going to school," he told AFP by phone from the village ... because of the double-punch of the war in Tigray and Covid shuttering schools.

Fighting between the Ethiopia government and Tigray forces has been going on since November 2020. The administrative area of Western Tigray was seized by Amhara forces when the war broke out.