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There are growing concerns over the possibility of armed conflict between Horn of Africa neighbours, Ethiopia and Eritrea, as hostile rhetoric has ratcheted up in recent weeks. Landlocked Ethiopia's ...

The silencing of the guns in Tigray, a northern region of Ethiopia in which hundreds of thousands of people may have died in a brutal civil war between 2020 and 2022, was a rare example of peacemaking ...

Ethiopia accuses Eritrea of "preparing to wage war", Eritrea retorts that its neighbour's words were fuelling "dangerous conflicts", and analysts fear another war is brewing in the volatile Horn of ...

A woman poses for a photograph in an undisclosed location on October 11, 2024. She told AFP that at the beginning of the conflict in Tigray in November 2020, she had been beaten, tortured and raped by ...

“Eritrea has a program of national service whereby the Eritrean population less than 50 years of age are obliged to serve in the military,” said Solomon Gofie, a visiting adjunct at UM from Addis ...

Ahead of the UN Human Rights Council’s 59th session (16 June-11 July 2025), we, the undersigned non-governmental organisations, are writing to urge your dele­gation to support the development and ...

For weeks there had been troubling signs: homes raided by unknown assailants; activists beaten in the street. Then, on March 11th, armed men appeared in Adigrat, a town in Ethiopia’s semi-autonomous ...

(Reuters) - Longtime foes Ethiopia and Eritrea could be headed towards war, officials in northern Ethiopia and regional experts have warned. A conflict would signal the death blow to a historic ...

A rare look inside a region still reckoning with the toll of war crimes, even as new conflicts roil the nation. From left, Mekdes, 21, and Tihune, 22, are members of Fano, which is fighting against ...

The United States is designating the Eritrean Defense Forces (EDF) Chief of Staff General Filipos Woldeyohannes (Filipos) for his connection with serious human rights abuse committed during the ...