Young people in Tigray are fleeing the region, driven by fear of forced recruitment and deep uncertainty amid rising tensions between Ethiopia and Eritrea. As political rhetoric sharpens and troop movements intensify along both countries’ borders, many young people are…
Clashes between government forces and local militias in Debre Tabor, the administrative town of the South Gondar Zone in the Amhara region, have caused casualties and property damage, according to residents cited by BBC Amharic. Residents told the BBC that…
Eritrea’s Information Minister, Yemane Gebremeskel, has said claims made by Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed to parliament were intended “to justify his reckless and illicit war agenda against Eritrea”. In a post on X, Yemane said the Ethiopian government had…
Ethiopian Airlines resumed flights to the Tigray region on Tuesday, five days after suspending services following clashes between regional and national forces. Eight flights operated between Mekele and Addis Ababa on Tuesday, with additional flights also running between Shire and…
Drone strikes hit two towns and a woreda in the Central Tigray Zone on Friday night and Saturday morning. Police said that one person was killed and another injured in a drone attack on the town of Enticho. The drone…
Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed arrived in Djibouti’s capital, Djibouti City, on Sunday for talks with President Ismail Omar Guelleh, following a recent thaw in relations between the two countries. In a post on X, Abiy said he had been…
Three young women were found dead on Tuesday last week in Debre Elias woreda of East Gojam zone in the Amhara region. The women, aged between 17 and 19, were reportedly executed by Fano militants. Confirming the incident, Asres Mare…
Ogula Ujulu, commissioner of the Gambella region police commission, has been arrested, Ethiopia Insider reported, citing his wife. Aryat Ubang said her husband was arrested on the evening of Thursday, 1 January. Other security officials have also been arrested, according…
(Article by Augustine Passilly, originally published in French daily La Croix, 31 December 2025) The rendezvous was due to take place near an Orthodox monastery perched on a hill south of Gondar, one of the main towns in Ethiopia’s northern…
Following Israel’s recognition of Somaliland as an independent state, questions were raised during the first session of Ethiopia’s House of People’s Representatives regarding the status of the memorandum of understanding that Ethiopia signed with the self-declared republic. However, neither Foreign…