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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 » Security: 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 » Security: Ethiopia: Afar region the new front in the civil war as Tigray violence subsides
Her family are among the 300,000 people who have been displaced by an offensive launched in late December by the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) into Afar, an arid region of stony deserts and ...
News Ethiopia » Afar » Security: 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 ...
News Ethiopia » Afar » Security: Eruption of long-dormant Ethiopian volcano subsides
In this photo released by the Afar Government Communication Bureau, ash billows from an eruption of the long-dormant Hayli Gubbi Volcano in Ethiopia's Afar region, Sunday, Nov. 23, 2025. "This is the ...
News Ethiopia » Afar » Security: 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 » Security: How history and geography anchor Ethiopia's push for the sea
With analysis from Pulse of Africa (POA) Sept. 2, 2026 (ENA) By Mahder Nesibu In a session with senior government leaders in 2023, Ethiopia's Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed, stated that his country's ...