{"id":46750,"date":"2026-09-29T08:38:01","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T06:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=46750"},"modified":"2026-09-29T08:38:01","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T06:38:01","slug":"ethiopian-pro-government-forces-claim-capture-of-strategic-tigray-town","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/ethiopian-pro-government-forces-claim-capture-of-strategic-tigray-town\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopian pro-government forces claim capture of strategic Tigray town"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Ethiopia&#8217;s military and allied militiamen captured a \u200bstrategic town in the conflict-hit region of Tigray, a pro-government militia said on Monday, turning the tables after an opposition offensive launched from the region last \u200cweek.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Video posted by the pro-government Tigray\u00a0Peace Force on its Facebook page and verified by R<i>euters<\/i> showed soldiers marching through the streets of Alamata, a town about 120 kilometres south of Tigray&#8217;s capital of Mekelle, waving Ethiopian flags.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Two diplomatic sources also said the town had fallen, while a source with links to pro-opposition forces told\u00a0<i>Reuters<\/i> they were retreating from Alamata and expected the town to be under the federal\u00a0\u200bmilitary&#8217;s control in a matter of hours.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The latest fighting pits Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed&#8217;s government against the Tigray People&#8217;s Liberation Front (TPLF), a guerrilla movement turned political\u00a0\u200bparty that dominated Ethiopian politics for nearly three decades until Abiy took office in 2018.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Spokesperson for the Ethiopian military and the TPLF did \u2060not immediately respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":46521,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[26],"class_list":["post-46750","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-general_news","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"","published_date":"","news_description":"Ethiopia's military captured \u200bstrategic town in the conflict-hit Tigray","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/46750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/46750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46751,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/46750\/revisions\/46751"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=46750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}