Debretsion Gebremichael, chairperson of the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), said the party is working to ensure that ...

President Trump has announced a new travel ban affecting 12 countries and restricting visas from 7 others. The policy takes effect on June 9, 2025.

Babiker wrote: “The Afar are one of the most disenfranchised communities in Eritrea. For several decades, they have been subjected to discrimination, harassment, arbitrary arrests, disappearance ...

In February, Eritrea launched a nationwide mobilisation, with Ethiopia following suit in March; reports suggest that heavy weaponry and mechanised units are being stationed close to the border in the ...

Ethiopia’s quest for access to the Red Sea has become a hotly debated topic on social media. Posts with a map of the Red Sea region in the Horn of Africa claim that Eritrea's port of Assab is located ...

Tigray borders Eritrea and Sudan in its international boundaries. Internally Tigray borders Amhara and Afar regions. This is what makes Tigray so vital to other people’s war plans. I have observed the ...

Another, separate, Afar insurgency was mounted in 1991 to 1994 in neighbouring Djibouti by the Front for the Restoration of Unity and Democracy (FRUD). A splinter faction continued to fight until 2000 ...

Both the Ethiopian and Eritrean governments have also been busy trying to appeal for the support of local leaders from the Afar people who reside on both sides of the common border.

Ethiopia and Eritrea made peace in 2018, formally ending their border conflict. But control of the Assab port, which serves both countries, has sparked new tensions and led to fears of a fresh ...

Five Europeans and eight Ethiopians kidnapped in remote northern Ethiopia are “unharmed and safe” in the hands of Afar separatist rebels holding them across the border in Eritrea, an Afar ...

“There were no fighters. Everything was peaceful before we heard explosions,” says 26-year-old Mekiya Ali in an interview with Global Voices, describing the day in August last year, when her hometown ...