Rebels in northern Ethiopia have seized regional airports and engaged government troops in Afar and Amhara. Observers fear deadly clashes could expand after rebels announced a new anti-government ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Tigrayan rebels in northern Ethiopia have launched a widescale offensive and seized control of regional ...

The TPLF fought against against the Ethiopian military from 2020 to 2022 in a conflict that saw hundreds of thousands of civilians killed. A resumption of fighting has sparked fears of another brutal ...

Ethiopia is Africa’s second most populous country; with a population of 102 million and a growth rate of 2.6% in 2020, it is also the world’s 12th most populous one. The country is home to various ...

Internet and call services have been disrupted in Ethiopia's northern region of Tigray following the outbreak of fighting this week between regional forces and the national army. Services provided by ...

Nearly four years ago, a peace deal ended the brutal war in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region, one of the deadliest conflicts of the 21st century. Now, the violence has returned — but the battle lines ...

Nigerian billionaire Aliko Dangote has announced that he is helping to fund a new $660m (£500m) fuel pipeline between Ethiopia and Djibouti The project will include a 120km- (75 mile-) pipeline ...

Fears of a communications blackout in northern Ethiopia have increased as fighting flares between the federal military and forces from the Tigray region and ⁠their allies. Telecom and internet ...

Ethiopia’s federal military has said it is handling rising tensions in the country’s north with restraint, as fears grow that Ethiopia could be heading towards another civil war. In his first comments ...

The power struggle between the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) and Ethiopia’s federal government has reignited after lying dormant since the 2020–22 civil war. In September 2026, the TPLF ...

Large-scale fighting has erupted in northern Ethiopia, sparking fears of a wider conflict that could spill across borders, just four years after the end of a war that killed an estimated 600,000 ...

Half a dozen groups, accusing the prime minister of being dictatorial, announced the formation of a coalition in a country already scarred by war. By Matthew Mpoke Bigg Reporting from Nairobi Armed ...