Ethiopia has installed a new administration in conflict-hit Tigray after federal forces pushed back Tigrayan fighters. But tensions with Eritrea continue to raise fears of a wider regional war.

The use of violence to acquire political authority has deep roots in Ethiopia’s modern history. Yonatan Tesfaye/Unsplash The renewed hostilities in Tigray threaten to undo a peace process that had ...

The two nations fought alongside each other during a brutal conflict in Tigray that left hundreds of thousands of people dead just a few years ago. Now they are on the brink of fighting each other. By ...

You’re reading Global Notes, Ishaan Tharoor’s weekly column on international politics and the shifting world order. If talk of a collapsing “international order” can feel like a distant abstraction, ...

Ethiopia is planning to withdraw thousands of troops from neighboring Somalia as escalating fighting at home forces Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s government to redirect military resources toward a ...

Four years after a fragile ceasefire ended widespread conflict in Ethiopia, the region is again slipping back into full-out war. On Sept. 23, 2026, advancing soldiers of the Tigray People’s Liberation ...

(Nairobi) – Fighting in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray, Amhara, and Afar regions erupted on September 22, 2026, between the Ethiopian military and forces aligned with the Tigrayan People’s Liberation ...

I have sometimes argued that there is no such thing as a bad Ethiopian restaurant. Maybe they exist in the wilds of America outside the DC area, but it’s certainly hard to find one in Silver Spring, ...

In response to the violent clashes in parts of Tigray – Ethiopia’s northern region – between Tigrayan forces and the Ethiopian National Defence Force (ENDF) on 1 August, Amnesty International’s ...

When Abiy Ahmed became Ethiopia’s prime minister in 2018, he offered a clean slate for Africa’s oldest uncolonized nation, which had been suffocated by decades of strict state control. His predecessor ...

A few months after coming to power in April 2018, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed signed a peace deal to end a decades-long insurgency in the country’s Oromia region. The same summer, he struck a ...

China’s extensive investments in Ethiopia’s railways and airports are raising concerns about foreign ownership in the country. The Bishoftu Airport, expected to be the continent’s largest when ...