By Awad Abdulsebur Ahmad / Addis Abeba It’s been almost a year now since the armed conflict erupted in the northern part of Ethiopia in the country’s Tigray regional state. Despite a unilateral humanitarian ceasefire declared by the government of Ethiopia months ago with a view to provide humanitarian aid to the people affected by the conflict, the conflict has ...
The civil war in Ethiopia is increasingly deteriorating. The Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) has accelerated its military advance towards the capital of the nearly 120 million-nation beginning of October. The TPLF said that it had made further territorial gains in the Amhara region, taking them closer to the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa. A TPLF spokesperson said that they had ...
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has been sworn in for a second five-year term on October 4. Abiy’s Prosperity Party was declared the winner of parliamentary elections earlier this year in a vote criticized and at times boycotted by opposition parties and Western countries but described by some outside electoral observers as better run than those in the past, reported ...
By Awad Abdulsebur Ahmad / Addis Abeba Despite the unilateral humanitarian ceasefire declared by the government of Ethiopia in an effort to assist the smooth flow of humanitarian aid to the people in Tigray region, the conflict has continued, resulting in a devastating humanitarian crisis. The Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), a militant group that is waging war with the ...