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ADDIS ABABA\/NAIROBI (Reuters) -Ethiopia\u2019s Amhara region on Sunday called on \u201call young people\u201d to take up arms against forces from the neighbouring region of Tigray, who claimed to have taken over a town in Amhara for the first time since the conflict began.<\/p>

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\u201cI call on all young people, militia, non-militia in the region, armed with any government weapon, armed with personal weapons, to join the anti-TPLF (Tigray People\u2019s Liberation Front) war mission from tomorrow,\u201d Agegnehu Teshager, president of the Amhara regional government, was quoted as saying by the region\u2019s state media.<\/p>\n

The call for mass mobilisation came as a spokesperson for the Tigray People\u2019s Liberation Front, the party that controls Tigray, said they had taken the town of Adi Arkay in Amhara.<\/p>\n

The spokesperson, Getachew Reda, told Reuters in a text message that TPLF had taken over the town but offered no more detail.<\/p>\n

Martha Abebaw, a resident of Adi Arkay, told Reuters she had left on Friday. Shortly afterwards she heard Tigrayan forces had taken the town and she had been unable to reach any of her family since then, she said. All transport to the town had stopped, she said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am calling them all non-stop. My mom\u2019s phone went through once this morning and a man with a strange voice answered the phone and told me I can\u2019t talk to her,\u201d she told Reuters.<\/p>\n

Spokespeople for the prime minister, Ethiopian military, a government taskforce on Tigray and did not return calls seeking comment. The spokesperson for the Amhara region said he was not authorised to comment on the matter.<\/p>\n

War erupted between the Ethiopian military and the TPLF in November. Three weeks later, the government declared victory when it captured Tigray\u2019s capital Mekelle, but the TPLF kept fighting. At the end of June, the TPLF seized back control of Mekelle and most of Tigray after government soldiers withdrew.<\/p>\n

In recent days Tigrayan forces pushed into Afar, the neighbouring region to the east, where they said they planned to target troops from the Amhara region fighting alongside the federal military in the area.<\/p>\n

The main road and railway linking landlocked Ethiopia\u2019s capital Addis Ababa with the sea port of Djibouti runs through Afar.<\/p>\n

Tigrayan forces have also pushed south and have said they will push west in an effort to restore their region\u2019s pre-war boundaries. Western Tigray is currently controlled by Amhara forces, who say the land rightfully belongs to them.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, the Amhara region\u2019s state media quoted Amhara\u2019s special forces commander, Brigadier General Tefera Mamo, as saying the war had expanded to the state.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe terrorist group has started a war in the Amhara and Afar regions and is also harassing Ethiopians,\u201d Tefera said, referring to TPLF. \u201cAmhara Special Forces are fighting in coordination with other security forces.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thousands of people have died in the fighting, around 2 million have been displaced and more than 5 million rely on emergency food aid.<\/p>\n

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