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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: Tigray fighters enter Ethiopia’s Afar region, stoking fears of new conflict
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: Is the Afar-Somali clash a result of government conspiracy?
Although border towns between the Somali and Afar regions have been under dispute for a couple of decades, direct conflict and military engagement between the two regional forces became more common ...
News Ethiopia » Afar » History: Ravaged by war, Ethiopia’s Afar minority face lengthy recovery during peace
“There were no fighters. Everything was peaceful before we heard explosions,” says 26-year-old Mekiya Ali in an interview with Global Voices, describing the day in August last year, when her hometown ...
News Ethiopia » Afar » History: ‘Afar has been raided’: Suffering stalks Ethiopia’s forgotten front
Aicha Nur cradles her wounded son Tahir. They and another son were able to flee but her six other children remain unaccounted for – Copyright AFP/File Fabrice ...
News Ethiopia » Afar » History: 'Why Are We Being Ignored' Plead The Hungry In Ethiopia's Afar
From a makeshift camp in Ethiopia's Afar region for people displaced by war, herder Abdu Robso stares in bewilderment at the food aid trucks rolling up the nearby hill towards Tigray. The Barron's ...
News Ethiopia » Afar » History: Oldest evidence of human cremation discovered: Burned 100,000-year-old Homo sapiens bones found in Ethiopia’s Afar Rift
In a remote stretch of Ethiopia’s Afar Rift, something quietly unsettling has begun to emerge from the ground. Fragments of bone, scattered within ancient sediments, are being studied for what they ...
News Ethiopia » Afar » History: Fighting in Ethiopia's Afar region displaces 300,000, aid blocked to Tigray
ADDIS ABABA, Feb 8 (Reuters) - The government of Ethiopia's Afar region says more than 300,000 people have been displaced by warfare there since December and it accused Tigrayan forces of killing ...