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A boy wearing blue sits on hospital bed with wrapped bandage from missing limbs.

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Hawzen, a rural town in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia, is a microcosm of the challenge facing Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed — and a warning that the war here is unlikely to end anytime soon.

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