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News Ethiopia » Afar » History: Tigray fighters enter Ethiopia’s Afar region, stoking fears of new conflict

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Published on: Wednesday 05 November 2025

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ethiopians holding national flags protest against what they say is interference by outsiders in the country's internal affairs and ...

News Ethiopia » Afar » History: Ethiopia's Afar Rift provides glimpse into life and death 100,000 years ago

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Published on: Tuesday 14 April 2026

The study of ancient cultures around Ethiopia during the Middle Stone Age (MSA) time period is important for understanding how some of the first Homo sapiens lived and eventually left Africa.

News Ethiopia » Afar » History: Tigray rebels push into Afar as Ethiopia blames neighbours

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Published on: Sunday 27 September 2026

Fighting in the north of Ethiopia continued to rage over the weekend, raising fears of a return to a 2020-2022 war in which an estimated 600,000 people died. Heavy clashes have resumed between the ...

News Ethiopia » Afar » History: ‘Weight of responsibility’: Promise and perils of covering Ethiopia’s war

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Published on: Monday 19 October 2026

Al Jazeera correspondent shares his experience of covering the fighting between government forces and Tigray rebels.

News Ethiopia » Afar » History: Ethiopia: Afar nationalists see opportunity in Abiy’s tensions with Eritrea

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Published on: Tuesday 19 August 2025

At the centre of the escalating hostility between Ethiopia and Eritrea lies Assab, a highly strategic port on the Red Sea coast. Assab has been part of Eritrea since the country seceded from Ethiopia ...

News Ethiopia » Afar » History: Ethiopia’s Afar region says under attack from Tigrayan forces

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Published on: Wednesday 05 November 2025

Rebels in the northern Tigray region fought a devastating civil war against the central government from 2020 to 2022 in which an estimated 600,000 people died, and relations with the capital and other ...

News Ethiopia » Afar » History: Claim of Tigrayan Rebel Withdrawal From Ethiopia’s Afar Region Questioned

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Published on: Friday 29 April 2022

Ethiopian federal authorities are dismissing a claim by Tigrayan rebels that their forces have pulled out of the neighboring Afar region. A spokesman for the Tigray People's Liberation Front this week ...

News Ethiopia » Afar » History: Fighting in Ethiopia intensifies: What’s the latest?

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Published on: Monday 28 September 2026

Capture of key town could pave the way for federal forces to push towards Tigray’s capital, Mekelle.

News Ethiopia » Afar » History: Enemies of convenience - Ethiopia's new opposition alignment and the question of what comes next

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Published on: Sunday 11 October 2026

On September 20, 2026, seven Ethiopian armed and political movements announced the formation of the Ethiopian Peoples' Forces Coalition for Survival, declaring that they sought to remove the ...