Ethiopia’s civil war escalates again

Next month will mark two years since the start of the conflict in Tigray, a northern region of Ethiopia. After the breakdown of five months of peace talks, the war — pitting the embattled Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front against the Ethiopian government and its ally Eritrea — is now escalating once again. Host Marco Werman spoke to Alex de Waal, executive director of the World Peace Foundation, who described it as “the most horrendous, horrific fighting in the world today.”