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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 Govt 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 ›

The Ethiopian National Defense Force says nearly 300 fighters linked to the Tigray People’s Liberation Front surrendered along the Tekeze corridor on September 18, handing over more than 280 weapons as Abiy Ahmed’s Regime presses a military message while northern… Read more ›

The International Finance Corporation says Ethiopia’s recent macro fixes are easing old barriers to private investment, even as Abiy Ahmed’s regime pairs that praise with a New Year sales push for mega-projects and 1.5 million homes. In remarks carried by… Read more ›

Abiy Ahmed’s regime marked the Ethiopian New Year with a clemency wave that freed more than 600 federal prisoners, including National Movement of Amhara (NaMA) parliamentarian Christian Tadele. State and rights-commission messaging cast the move as an early delivery on… Read more ›

At the 18th BRICS Summit in New Delhi on September 15, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed again cast Ethiopia’s quest for reliable sea access as an economic file, not a battlefield one. In remarks amplified by state-aligned Fana Media and summarized… Read more ›

For the week of September 7 to 13, fighting between Amhara Fano forces and units tied to Abiy Ahmed’s Prosperity Party government continued across a wide stretch of Amhara, according to the Amhara Association of America. AAA’s updated September 14… Read more ›

Eritrea’s Foreign Ministry said on Saturday that Abiy Ahmed’s Prosperity Party government was “actively destabilising the Horn of Africa,” according to reporting relayed by AFP and detailed by regional outlets on September 12–13. Asmara also accused Addis Ababa of harboring,… Read more ›

Internally displaced people sheltering with host communities across Amhara say food aid has gone silent for months, even as Abiy Ahmed’s regime continues to frame the region’s war as a security cleanup. A Deutsche Welle Amharic report, carried in English… Read more ›

Fighting across Amhara has not paused for Addis Ababa’s talking points. Pro-Fano sources say that on September 8, Fano fighters overran federal positions in the Wadla-Delanta-Dawunt area of North Wollo and took more than 150 Ethiopian National Defence Force soldiers… Read more ›

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed inaugurated the first phase of an expanded logistics center in Mojo on September 10, casting the 60-hectare hub as proof that Ethiopia can turn continental free-trade ambitions into concrete cargo capacity. State-aligned Fana reported him saying… Read more ›

Since the Fano war began in April 2023, Amhara communities have lived under an air campaign few villages can answer. Conflict trackers at ACLED count 102 federal drone strikes in Amhara over that period — a running total, not a… Read more ›

The government of Ethiopia has accused the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) of hampering humanitarian aid delivery to Tigray region. Briefing journalists on Thursday, spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Dina Mufti said TPLF troops have imperiled food aid… Read more ›

The government of Ethiopia said it questions the validity of numerous political matters the Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch issued in their latest report in relation to war crimes allegations committed in Wolkait region in northern Ethiopia. In a… Read more ›

Eritrean president Issaias Afeworki declared that ethnic Amhara youngsters from neighboring Ethiopia can receive military training at the Sawa Defense Training Center, a military academy in the Gash- Barka region of Eritrea. The president said his government is accused of… Read more ›

Nine mass graves have been discovered in Wolkait-Tegede and Telemt zone of Amhara regional state, a study conducted by Gonder University of Ethiopia has revealed. The study said at least 59,000 ethnic Amhara civilians were massacred and buried together in… Read more ›

President of the Amhara regional state Dr. Yilkal Kefale said his government is working on legal ownership of Wolkait and Setit Humera Zone as part of the Amhara region.  Recalling that the zone which was formerly known as Begemeder, was… Read more ›

The government of Ethiopia has spotted more than 200,000 fake degree certificates, the majority of which are offered to government officials.  The country’s Higher Education Relevance and Quality Agency on Saturday announced about the fake certificates and called for invalidation by… Read more ›

Ethiopia and MasterCard have reached an agreement that would enable Ethiopians to access and pay for government services digitally.  The agreement is expected to support government’s wider digital transformation plan to modernize Ethiopia’s payment systems and foster a more financially… Read more ›

At least 37 troops of the Oromo Liberation Front (OLF) were killed in a counter offensive that took place in Minjar-Shenkora, central Shoa zone in Amhara region. The offensive came after OLF troops also known as ‘Shane’ had killed civilians… Read more ›

The US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations on Tuesday approved what is called “Ethiopia Peace and Stabilization Act” to impose sanctions on Ethiopians committing human rights abuses, blocking food aid delivery, or taking other actions that could worsen the conflict… Read more ›

The Ethiopian government and the rebel Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) are accusing each other over blockage of food aid to millions of needy people in Tigray region. Government Communication Services (GCS), has made claims that humanitarian aid is heading… Read more ›

Fighting between the Ethiopian army and troops loyal to the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) at the Ethio-Sudanese border has continued for the seventh day with reports that three fortresses of the Tigrayan forces were destroyed. The fighting has been… Read more ›

  Multiple demonstrations hit the streets of various cities in Ethiopia’s Amhara region calling for annulment of last year’s 12 grade national examination. The tens of thousands of demonstrators said the latest results of the Ethiopian Secondary School Leaving Examination… Read more ›

The Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) launched offensive, breaching a ceasefire it agreed to comply with the declaration of an indefinite humanitarian truce on the part the Ethiopian Government. The TPLF forces launched offensives from Sudan to Ethiopia’ Amhara region… Read more ›

The Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), which is fighting the government in northern Ethiopia, announced that it has “cautiously” agreed to a ceasefire. TPLF in a statement on Friday said it has agreed to the implementation of an immediate cessation… Read more ›