Ethiopia's Afar region says it came under attack from forces of the neighbouring Tigray region, which seized control of villages and bombed civilians, in the latest sign of internal conflict in the ...

E thiopia’s Afar region has accused forces from neighbouring Tigray of crossing into its territory, seizing several villages and attacking civilians, in what it called a breach of the 2022 peace deal ...

For exactly two years leading up to November 2022, northern Ethiopia experienced intense fighting between federal forces and ...

The Afar regional government in Ethiopia is accusing the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), a regional political party with 250,000 well-armed fighters in Tigray region, of launching a cross ...

With reports of heavy weapons fire and drone strikes in northern Ethiopia over the past week, there are fears the region is ...

The situation in Ethiopia continues to be marked by conflict and tension, particularly in the Afar region, where Tigray fighters recently invaded. This event has rekindled fears of a new escalation of ...

A splinter group calling itself the Tigray Peace Force has emerged from within the TPLF, reigniting tensions along the Afar border and testing Ethiopia’s uneasy calm.

A TPLF supporter during the civil war in 2021 - Copyright AFP/File Yasuyoshi Chiba A TPLF supporter during the civil war in 2021 - Copyright AFP/File Yasuyoshi Chiba ...