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 ›
