Ethiopia

The president of the Somali regional state, Mustafa Mohammed Omar, said on Wednesday that an important road and rail trade connecting the landed capital Addis Ababa to the port of Djibouti has been blocked. The majority of goods entering Ethiopia, a country of about 110 million people, are transported through that corridor. Reuters was unable to independently verify the reported block. The Ethiopian Prime Minister's office and authorities in Djibouti could not be immediately reached for comment.…

NAIROBI, Kenya - The Tigray Defense Forces continued to close in on Amhara and Afar territories, a move that could further inflame conflict in Ethiopia, which has been rife with unrest in recent months. Since November 2020, the conflict has taken to a higher level after the Ethiopian National Defense Forces , Eritrean troops and Amhara regional forces attacked the Tigray region in pursuit of the TDF, which has ruled the state for several years. According to the American publication Amhara, TDF penetrated the Amhara…

NAIROBI, Kenya - Ethnic and political skirmishes in Ethiopia have taken on another dimension, after Tuesday's clashes in the town of GarbaIssa in the Somali region, something could further hamper peacemaking processes in the Horn of Africa nation . According to reports from the BBC Somali Service, fighting broke out in the town of the Sitti zone of the Somali region between herders and militias from the Afar region. The battle comes a day after the Somali regional state said it would protect its residents of the city on…

Large patriotic meeting on Tuesday 27 July 2021 in the morning in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa. City Hall called on young people to mobilize to fight the Tigrayan rebels in the north of the country. In fact, the war that has been going on in Tigray for almost nine months has recently spread to neighboring regions and destroyed the impact of the national army. The Ethiopian government is now being…

Food and water are flowing into two camps in Ethiopia's conflict-torn Tigray region, which houses about 24,000 Eritrean refugees, the UN refugee agency said on Tuesday. Fighting between armed groups has escalated in and around the camps, Mai Aini and Adi Harush, and two refugees have been killed this month, it said, adding that they do not know who the groups are. "The last distribution of food to the two refugee camps took place in June, when the ration was only enough for 30 days," said Babar Baloch,…

Ethiopia's Amhara State recruits more youth, promises to crush TDF in Tigray NAIROBI, Kenya - The conflict in Ethiopia appears to be spiraling out of control as Amhara regional forces have gathered more young people to join the combat strategy with the Tigray Defense Forces. which closes in the north by buying back its strongholds. Amhara State called on young people to join the regional army,…

In Ethiopia, the federal government has called on the regions to help, in the face of the sharp increase in the Tigray forces fighting it. Oromo, Amhara and Afar civilians have been urged in recent days to defend Ethiopia with their arms in their hands. This ethnic mobilization raises fears of an even more violent turnaround in the war and, according to observers, also reveals that federal forces can no…

Massacres and war fuel ethnic fervor in Ethiopia's Amhara NAIROBI, Kenya - As he set out to vote in Ethiopia's national elections, Tesfahun Sisay chose his outfit with determination, donning a T-shirt featuring a man's face and a Kalashnikov rifle. This man was Asaminew Tsige: Revered by many in Amhara, Asaminew commanded the muscular security forces in the region until two years ago, when he…

Ethiopia's Amhara regional president called on all armed residents to mobilize for the fight against rebels from the conflict-ridden Tigray Sunday, calling it a "survival campaign," state media reported. Amhara borders Tigray to the south and the two regions are involved in a decades-old land war that has become central to the eight-month-old war in Tigray. Sunday's statement from Amhara regional president Agegnehu Teshager echoes a call from the president of Ethiopia's Afar region just east of Tigray. Together, the…

Their parents are asking for help to evacuate their children from Tigray. as reported from Nairobi, Albane ThirouardSince the rebel forces from Tigray took over Mekele, the communications network has been cut off again and most roads in the region have been blocked. In addition, there is a lack of food. In total, more than…