The last time Ethiopian farmer Zeleke Alabachew saw combat was two decades ago, when a border war broke out with neighbouring Eritrea and he joined a ragtag militia that went to the front. Now Zeleke ...

An eerily familiar set of headlines is making the rounds in Ethiopia, troubling many in the fragile, northern Tigray region. Successive delegations of civil society and religious leaders have, in ...

NEBAR HADNET, Ethiopia (AP) — The cruel realities of war and drought seem to have merged for Tinseu Hiluf, a widow living in the arid depths of Ethiopia's Tigray region who is raising four children ...

Before he was a rebel, Asres Mare Damte was a lawyer. Today he fights for the Fano, a loose collection of groups taking on Ethiopia’s military in one of its most populous and powerful regions. The ...

In November 2022, the Ethiopian government and Tigrayan forces signed the Pretoria peace agreement – described by the African Union as a “new dawn” – to halt a devastating two-year conflict that ...

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Leaders of a militia in Ethiopia's Amhara region accused the administration in neighbouring Tigray of "beating a war drum" over plans to return hundreds of thousands of Tigrayans ...

The New Lines Institute for Strategy and Policy published in June an extensive report concluding that there is strong evidence to suggest that all sides of the 2020-2022 Tigray war committed war ...

The Ethiopian National Defence Force (ENDF) has around 140,000 active personnel, the vast majority of them in the army, according to the Janes security data group. Its troops have been tested by ...

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A woman poses for a photograph in an undisclosed location on October 11, 2024. She told AFP that at the beginning of the conflict in Tigray in November 2020, she had been beaten, tortured and raped by ...