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A peace deal to end the fighting in Tigray was brokered in South Africa by the African Union on 2 November last year. The war, which also drew in Eritrean forces, inflicted terrible damage on the region. Ethiopian Finance Minister Ahmed Shide recently estimated the cost of reconstruction at $20...

Ethiopia told the United Nations on Saturday it wanted quicker implementation of a peace deal in Tigray, including on disarmament of former rebels. Ethiopia's government and the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) in November last year reached an accord in Pretoria that has largely halted a...

Eritrean troops allied with Ethiopia’s government have “committed war crimes and possible crimes against humanity” in Tigray, rights group Amnesty International says. In a report released on Monday, Amnesty detailed how Eritrean soldiers extrajudicially executed civilians and sexually enslaved women...

Eritrean and Ethiopian soldiers continue a widespread and systematic campaign of rape in Tigray, despite the peace agreement signed in November last year, a new report reveals. In the first report to document sexual violence—using hundreds of medical records from the start of the conflict in...

Ethiopia vowed to launch a joint investigation with Saudi Arabian authorities into a Human Rights Watch (HRW) report accusing the kingdom's border guards of killing hundreds of Ethiopian migrants, the Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday. "The Government of Ethiopia will promptly investigate the...

Saudi border guards have fired small arms and sometimes mortar shells at Ethiopian migrants trying to enter the Gulf kingdom through Yemen, killing hundreds of people since last year, New York-based rights group Human Rights Watch (HRW) alleged on Monday. The group's report draws on interviews with...

A suspected air strike at the weekend in Ethiopia's Amhara region killed at least 26 people, a hospital official said on Monday, as a state-appointed rights group detailed widespread killings of civilians since fighting broke out this month. Federal forces managed late last week to push Fano...

In the Amhara region of Ethiopia, fighting between a militia group and Ethiopia's National Defense Force (ENDF) has intensified. The Fano militia, which draws volunteers from the local population, has reportedly taken control of several towns in the region. The unrest has quickly become Ethiopia's...

Rebels from Ethiopia's Oromiya region accused the government on Wednesday of launching a military offensive against them after a first round of peace talks ended earlier this month without a deal. The government and the Oromo Liberation Army held negotiations for a week in Zanzibar in a bid to end a...

The Ethiopian government has said it intends to integrate all regional special forces either into the national army or the federal or regional police, a move likely to be perceived as an attempt to diminish the autonomy of individual regions. Ethiopia’s 10 regions currently enjoy a degree of...