Category: Politics
The Afar region official has announced that more than 200,000 people have been displaced following the eruption of renewed fighting in northern Ethiopia this past week. The region’s head of disaster prevention and risk management Mohamed Hussein told VOA’s Amharic…
Tigrayan regional authorities accused the federal government of carrying out drone strikes in the city of Mekelle on the night of Tuesday, August 30. “Nighttime drone attack in Mekelle, no conceivable military targets,” tweeted Getachew Reda, the TPLF spokesperson, adding…
There is fierce fighting still taking place around Kobo town between Tigrayan fighters and the federal troops on Monday, Deutsche Welle Amharic reported citing witnesses and residents. As fighting raged in Kobo and its vicinity, an increasing number of people…
Ethiopian army chief says country shot down a plane carrying weapons destined for rebel groups Tigray rebels have seized control of Kobo, a town located in the Amhara region along the main highway, 50 km from Woldia and 410 km…
The Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) said that it had only taken the fuel it had lent to the United Nations months back and it didn’t commit any robberies. TPLF said this in response to an allegation from the World…
Gaibo had been suffering from malnutrition for over a month before he arrived at a clinic which treats children in the town of Karat in Konso woreda in the SNNPR region on 01 August 2022. He was five months old,…
Rebel forces in the Tigray region say fighting has broken out again with neighbouring Eritrea. The Tigrayan People’s Liberation Front (TPLF)’s spokesman Getachew Reda said on Twitter on May 31 that the Eritrean forces shelled the Tigray town of Sheraro…
(CPJ)-The Committee to Protect Journalists on Monday condemned Ethiopia’s expulsion of Economist correspondent Tom Gardner, following the revocation of his press accreditation on Friday, May 13. Gardner’s expulsion came almost a year after Ethiopian authorities similarly expelled New York Times…
In Ethiopia, while a humanitarian truce came into effect at the end of March, the Tigrayan rebels continue to occupy part of the Afar region. They left behind a region in ruins: buildings, factories, and infrastructures destroyed. The devastation of…
On Sunday, May 8, Tigrayan forces launched a heavy artillery attack over the Eritrean border at the town of Rama and Badme, BBC reported citing credible sources. Heavy fighting lasted for a few hours when the Eritrean forces managed to…