A Tigray-war reignition with cross-border spillover, offered as a thread candidate 2026-08-03 and promoted by Ben 2026-08-04. Opening picture as recorded on 08-01/03: fresh fighting broke out in western Tigray between the Ethiopian federal government and the TPLF, with hundreds fleeing across the border and regional analysts warning a wider war could reignite. It has had NO dedicated coverage here and is front-page-scale if it accelerates. Track: whether federal/TPLF fighting becomes sustained rather than episodic; displacement volume and direction; whether Eritrea enters directly, which is the step-change that would turn a civil conflict back into a regional war; and any AU/UN mediation. Coverage bar per AGENTS discipline 13 — an active military conflict above hyper-local scale is a yes, not a judgment call re-litigated per war.
russia-ukraine-war untracked for two days in July. ⟨steer 2026-08-04⟩