At the centre of the escalating hostility between Ethiopia and Eritrea lies Assab, a highly strategic port on the Red Sea coast. Assab has been part of Eritrea since the country seceded from Ethiopia ...

Authorities in Ethiopia’s Afar region accused fighters from the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) on Wednesday of crossing into the region and seizing six villages in one of the most serious ...

Addis Ababa (AFP) – Ethiopia's Afar region has said it came under attack from the forces of neighbouring Tigray, accusing it of seizing control of villages and bombing civilians, in the latest sign of ...

Ethiopia’s government said it is evacuating approximately 80,000 people following a series of small-scale earthquakes in the Afar, Oromia and Amhara regions. At least 10 earthquakes were reported in ...

“There were no fighters. Everything was peaceful before we heard explosions,” says 26-year-old Mekiya Ali in an interview with Global Voices, describing the day in August last year, when her hometown ...

Chifra is west of the town of Mille, which Tigrayan forces have been trying to capture for weeks [source: Getty] ADDIS ABABA - Ethiopia's army has retaken the town of Chifra in the Afar region, the ...

Rebels in the northern Tigray region fought a devastating civil war against the central government from 2020 to 2022 in which an estimated 600,000 people died, and relations with the capital and other ...