Tigray and the Paper at PretoriaEthiopia · 2020–2022“The last story tonight is still warm. Handle it like a coal.”Ethiopia's federation had been a careful machine of regions and parties, and when trust broke between the federal government and Tigray's leadership — over elections, over power, over the past — the machine became a battlefield in November 2020.The lesson the elders kept: Ending the fighting and healing the society are two different labours — the second is slower, quieter, and just as necessary.