FILE PHOTO: An Ethiopian refugee who fled Tigray region holds a child inside a courtesy bus at the Fashaga camp, as they are transferred to Um-Rakoba camp on the Sudan-Ethiopia border, in Kassala state, Sudan December 13, 2020. REUTERS/Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah/File Photo
ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia sent civil servants in Tigray back to work on Monday and ordered gun owners to disarm as Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's government sought to restore normality in the northern region after weeks of war.
Some power and telephone links were also restored in regional capital Mekelle after a virtual communications blackout since federal troops' Nov. 4 offensive. But there were reports of big fuel and food price hikes, plus water shortages.
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