Clashes broke out last week after months of tension between the government and the party that controls Tigray, the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF). They both accuse each other of violating a 2022 peace deal that ended a brutal two-year civil war, which according to an Africa Union mediator is estimated to have cost 600,000
A humanitarian source in Afar told AFP news agency on Thursday that Tigrayan forces had launched heavy artillery attacks as they attempted to take control of the town of Yallo, near the border with Tigray. “We are in the situation of full-blown war now,” TPLF vice-president Amanuel Assefa is quoted by the news agency as
The flight suspension follows a series of reported drone strikes in Tigray. On Tuesday, a strike in the southern town of Alamata killed at least 14 people and injured 22 others, according to the Tigrayan authorities. The town’s mayor, Mogos Shiferaw, told the BBC that more than five drones and one fighter jet had carried
Ethiopia’s Yomif Kejelcha has broken the men’s half marathon world record, winning a World Athletics road race in Buenos Aires on Sunday in 56 minutes 51 seconds. The 29-year-old previously held the record with a time of 57:30, set in Valencia in October 2024, but lost that to Uganda’s Jacob Kiplimo in March. Kiplimo ran
The three-day festival of Ashenda takes places as Orthodox Christians commemorate the Virgin Mary. Its name means “the tall green grass” in Tigrinya and has grown into a wider cultural event that celebrates women. It is eagerly anticipated by girls and young women in Tigray and other parts of northern Ethiopia. They dress up, braid
