Million Mehari, 15, an internally displaced person originally from Humera in western Tigray, sits in the corrugated metal home she shares with her grandmother in the Tshehaye displacement camp in Shire, Ethiopia, February 7, 2026. MARCO SIMONCELLI Sitting on a small stool inside her metal home in the Tshehaye displacement camp in Shire, 15-year-old Million Mehari nervously twists her blue-and-white beaded necklace. Five years ago, because of the war that raged in Tigray from 2020 to 2022, she was forced to flee her hometown of Humera in western Tigray to seek refuge in neighboring Sudan with part of her family. Mehari resettled in northern Ethiopia in 2025, hoping the region had finally found lasting peace. But in recent weeks, the teenager has felt fearful: “A lot of people say the war is going to start again. It scares me so much… But what can we do about it?” Tigray has been experiencing a surge in tensions since the end of the conflict that pitted the local Tigrayan authorities against the Ethiopian federal government, which claimed …