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Residents of Adigrat, the northern Tigray city about 40 kilometers south of the Eritrean border, told AFP that Eritrean soldiers who came into their area this month have left after federal drone strikes, but one man said the police and security system has collapsed, some prisoners have been released and robberies and stabbings are now common. Read more ›

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Saturday that the Ethiopian Government is facing “separatists” who attacked inside the country, and he described drone strikes on Addis Ababa as terrorist attacks, while warning that troops massing on both sides of the Ethiopia-Eritrea border could turn the fighting into a broader war. Read more ›

Hundreds of former Tigrayan fighters lined up in Mekelle on Friday to register for a program meant to help them return to civilian life, the Associated Press reported, and one of them, a 33-year-old day laborer, said he had turned down a TPLF call to rejoin his old unit because he wanted to raise his children. Read more ›

A one-page Tigrigna statement signed “Government of Tigray,” dated Friday, Oct. 16, and attributed to the TPLF-led authorities who ran Tigray until federal forces retook Mekelle this month, rejects the six-month caretaker administration named by the Ethiopian federal government and warns against “any kind of movement” at Mekelle’s Alula Aba Nega Airport. Read more ›

The Ethiopian Red Cross Society said its ambulance driver Mulugeta Andualem was killed when armed groups attacked an ERCS ambulance at Jirsie Mender (also spelled Juraysis) in Dangur woreda, Metekel zone of Benishangul-Gumuz, at about 1:20 p.m. on Oct. 14, and the society did not name the group behind the attack. Read more ›

Ethiopia’s federal government has established a six-month caretaker administration for the Tigray Region and named five officials to lead it, the Office of the Prime Minister said on Friday, with a mandate that includes restoring security and public services, repairing war-damaged infrastructure, helping displaced people return home and creating conditions for free and transparent elections within six months. Read more ›

Lt. Gen. Tadesse Werede, the former president of Tigray’s interim administration, and three other former officials held since late September escaped from captivity near the Eritrean border on Monday, one of the four, Colonel Tewelde Gebretensae, told BBC Tigrinya and UMD Media on Tuesday. Read more ›

The UN Security Council was set to meet behind closed doors in New York on Tuesday morning to discuss the fighting in northern Ethiopia and the growing confrontation between Ethiopia and Eritrea, a session the United States requested after the two governments sent the Council rival letters last week, each accusing the other of aggression, Security Council Report said. Read more ›

Ethiopia’s intelligence chief, Ambassador Redwan Hussien, said after visiting Mekelle and Adigrat that he had seen a “new spirit,” a different mood, and a deep thirst for peace across Tigray. Read more ›

Unverified reports say Ethiopian National Defense Force units crossed into Eritrea on Sunday near the Bure front and took control of Deba-Sima, a locality on the road toward the Red Sea port of Assab. Read more ›

At least 109 people, among them 15 children, died when a boat carrying migrants from Djibouti toward Yemen capsized near Guhere, north of the port town of Obock, during the night of Oct. 8 to 9, the International Organization for Migration said on Sunday. Read more ›

Getachew Reda flew into Mekelle on Sunday morning aboard the first Ethiopian Airlines flight to the Tigray capital since the carrier halted service when fighting broke out in northern Ethiopia in late September. Read more ›

Fano forces of the Amhara Fano National Movement (AFNM) say they have taken ten towns in the Shewa area of the Amhara region, most of them within 150 km of Addis Ababa, after days of fighting with federal troops that residents of Menz say has killed civilians, among them a ninth-grade student and a deacon. Read more ›

Ethiopian government forces and allied fighters entered Adigrat on Saturday morning, three residents told Reuters, days after Eritrean troops who had been seen in the northern Tigray city pulled back under drone fire. Read more ›

Ethiopia’s House of Peoples’ Representatives on Thursday unanimously approved the 22 federal ministers nominated by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, completing the cabinet of the new government after he began a fresh five-year term this week. Read more ›

Ethiopian drone strikes hit Eritrean troops and ammunition around the Tigray city of Adigrat overnight between Wednesday and Thursday, the conflict monitor ACLED and residents told AFP, a day after Eritrean soldiers were reported moving south from the border toward Idaga Hamus. Read more ›

Twenty-three of the 34 people brought to Ayder Comprehensive Specialized Hospital in Mekelle in recent days with wounds from “heavy artillery, drones, gunfire and explosives” were children, the hospital’s emergency coordinator, Birhanu Hailemariam, told AFP. Read more ›

Eritrean soldiers have been in and around the Tigray town of Adigrat for several days, and some have been seen moving south toward Mekelle in trucks carrying heavy weapons, a local official and residents told AFP on Wednesday. Read more ›

Drone strikes and airstrikes hit a camp for displaced people in Sheraro (also spelled Shiraro) and several hotels in the historic town of Adwa over the weekend, according to aid workers and witnesses. Read more ›

Abiy Ahmed was sworn in for a new five-year term as Ethiopia’s prime minister on Monday. Read more ›

The Ethiopian Government said on Monday that its claims on the Blue Nile and the Red Sea “cannot be altered by political rhetoric, coercive measures, or acts of destabilisation.” That came a day after the leaders of Egypt, Eritrea, Somalia… Read more ›

The Ethiopian federal government is preparing to set up a new interim administration in Tigray and wants to hold regional elections within a few months, according to Abraham Belay, a former president of the Tigray Interim Administration. He spoke a… Read more ›

The United States called on Saturday for restraint and a return to dialogue and cooperation between Ethiopia and Eritrea, as Egypt prepared to host the leaders of Eritrea, Sudan and Somalia on Sunday in El-Alamein for talks that come amid… Read more ›

The Tigray People’s Liberation Front said late Saturday that it had “temporarily moved out of Mekelle” to “operate from somewhere else,” according to a statement carried by Al Jazeera, as Ethiopian Government forces and allied fighters were reported inside the… Read more ›

Ethiopian National Defence Forces and allied fighters have retaken Alula Aba Nega Airport outside Mekelle, the capital of Tigray, according to sources who spoke to Reuters on Saturday, as residents and a local journalist told AFP that fighters from the… Read more ›

Fighting in northern Ethiopia is no longer confined to Tigray. According to an Al Jazeera visual explainer published Friday, combat now runs across several fronts in Tigray, Amhara and Afar, almost four years after a peace deal ended the previous… Read more ›

Ethiopian government forces and allied militiamen have closed in on Mekelle, the capital of Tigray, residents and a diplomat told Reuters on Friday, as banks and shops in the city closed and fears grew that the fighting could spill into… Read more ›

The Ethiopian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Thursday, October 1, 2026, that it would close Ethiopia’s embassy in Asmara and declared 10 Eritrean diplomats persona non grata, Mereja.com reported. Fana Media Corporation, cited in that report, said the diplomats… Read more ›

Explosions were heard overnight in Addis Ababa as fighting between Ethiopian Gov’t forces and a coalition of armed opposition groups widened in the north, according to an October 1, 2026 report by Al Jazeera and matching Reuters reporting. Three diplomatic… Read more ›

Fighting near Lalibela, the Amhara Region town famous for its UNESCO rock-hewn churches, has left about 33 tourists stranded after the local airport closed to commercial flights, according to a late September 2026 report by BBC journalists Michael Teferi, Lion… Read more ›

Civilians living along the Amhara-Tigray borderlands say they are being hit by shelling and heavy fighting as Ethiopian Gov’t forces push north toward Mekelle, according to a September 29, 2026 report by Deutsche Welle that gathered eyewitness accounts while internet… Read more ›

Ethiopia’s army chief has said federal forces are answering the renewed northern fighting with “wisdom and restraint” and prefer “strategic calm,” even as analysts warn that the conflict could pull in neighbours and threaten Red Sea shipping routes, according to… Read more ›

A humanitarian source cited by AFP and reported by Euronews and Addis Standard estimated that at least 150,000 people have been displaced in Ethiopia’s Afar region as fighting between Tigrayan forces and the Ethiopian federal government intensified over the weekend… Read more ›

Médecins Sans Frontières said on September 28, 2026 that hospitals supporting people hurt in renewed fighting in northern Ethiopia have taken in a sharp rise in war-wounded patients since September 22, including at facilities that sit close to Amhara communities… Read more ›

Pro-government forces claim they have captured Alamata, a strategic town south of Mekelle in Tigray, the Ethiopian military and allied militiamen said through the pro-government Tigrai Peace Force on Monday, September 28, 2026, according to Reuters reporting carried by ThePrint.… Read more ›

TPLF-aligned Tigray fighters and allied forces reportedly entered Sekota, the administrative center of Wag Hemra Zone in Ethiopia’s Amhara region, on Friday evening, September 25, 2026, as fighting continued to widen across northern Amhara under pressure from Abiy Ahmed’s Regime… Read more ›

A humanitarian source in Afar told AFP that Ethiopian federal forces fought overnight into Friday, September 25, 2026, to keep Tigrayan fighters from entering the mountain border town of Abala, and that the army used a drone during the pushback,… Read more ›

Web monitor NetBlocks said Friday, September 25, 2026, that network data showed a subnational internet disruption in northern Ethiopia matching reports of a telecoms blackout in Tigray, as fighting between forces tied to Abiy Ahmed’s Regime and Tigrayan units continued… Read more ›

TPLF vice president Amanuel Assefa told AFP on Thursday, September 24, 2026, that Tigrayan forces are in a state of “full-blown war” with the Ethiopian federal government, as fighting that began Wednesday spread beyond Tigray into neighbouring Afar and Amhara.… Read more ›

The Ethiopian army said Thursday, September 24, 2026, that it had killed 272 Tigrayan fighters and wounded 260 more in a counteroffensive in North Wollo Zone of the Amhara Region, after what the military described as a TPLF assault the… Read more ›

Ethiopian Airlines has cancelled flights to Mekelle, Axum, and Shire after regional forces in Tigray took control of Mekelle’s main airport early on Wednesday, September 23, 2026, according to the state carrier’s notice and reporting by the Associated Press, the… Read more ›

Amhara communities that have already lived through weeks of fighting with Fano forces in many parts of the region now face reports of a fresh northern spillover, after federal adviser Getachew Reda said Tigrayan fighters launched offensives into neighbouring Afar… Read more ›

The United Nations on Monday expressed deep concern about Ethiopia’s worsening security situation, including the formation of a new coalition of armed groups and reports of continued insecurity and drone strikes, spokesperson Stéphane Dujarric told reporters at the daily briefing… Read more ›

Fighting between Amhara Fano forces and units working with Abiy Ahmed’s Regime continued across a wide stretch of the Amhara Region during the week of September 14 to 20, 2026, according to a weekly conflict update from the Amhara America… Read more ›

The Ethiopian Media Authority announced on September 21, 2026, that it had indefinitely suspended Tigrai TV, also known as Tigray TV, and told other Ethiopian digital, broadcast, and print outlets not to rebroadcast, cite, or use the station’s content while… Read more ›

Amhara Fano National Movement chair Zemene Kassie fronted a late Sunday announcement in which seven Ethiopian armed and opposition groups said they had formed a joint alliance aimed at removing Abiy Ahmed’s government and putting an inclusive transitional administration in… Read more ›

Dagne Wale’s newest official lyrics video, Addis Ababa | አዲስ አበባ, went live on his YouTube channel on 17 September 2026, and within about a day it was already climbing international YouTube trending lists while passing roughly 800,000 views. The… Read more ›

Chinese Embassy Chargé d’Affaires a.i. Sun Mingxi told reporters in Addis Ababa that Ethiopia was the “champion” of the recent New Delhi BRICS summit, as Abiy Ahmed’s Regime highlights diplomatic wins abroad while war and northern tensions continue at home.… Read more ›