Tigray

The EU Foreign Policy Chief has said that the EU and the US were monitoring the implementation of the peace agreement in Ethiopia and will only gradually restore their relations with Addis Ababa. "First of all, in Ethiopia, this was a…

The dominant party in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region has nominated its spokesman Getachew Reda to be president of a regional interim administration called for in a peace deal that ended a two-year war in the region. The Tigray People's…

The African Union (AU) has called for a "political dialogue" between the Ethiopian government and Tigrayan officials, more than three months after a peace agreement that ended a bloody conflict in the north of the country. The statement…

Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki said Thursday that allegations of rights abuse by Eritrean troops in Ethiopia's Tigray region during the two-year war there amounted to "fantasy". "This is a fantasy in the minds of those who are... in…

The Ethiopian government says it has sent $90 million to the Tigrayan capital to help restart banking services in the country. Prime Minister Abiy's national security advisor, Redwan Hussein, announced on Twitter that the National Bank had…

Forces from Ethiopia's Amhara region, who fought in support of federal troops during the two-year war in neighbouring Tigray, have withdrawn in line with an Africa Union-backed ceasefire, the army said. Ethiopian federal government and the…

Federal police in Ethiopia began to deploy to Mekele, the capital of war-torn Tigray province marking a new stage in a nearly two-month old peace deal. War between the federal government and Tigray rebels began in November 2020. Prime…

Ethiopian Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed, told parliament that the ceasefire agreement between his government and forces in Tigray would be implemented ‘honestly’. The two sides signed a further deal in Kenya on Saturday on the full…

Warring sides in the Ethiopian conflict agreed on peace roadmap. The Chief of Staff of the Ethiopian Armed Forces and Head of the Tigray Forces signed an agreement in Nairobi Kenya that they said calls for disengagement from all forms of…

The rebel authorities in Ethiopia's Tigray region have confirmed their participation in talks scheduled for Monday in South Africa, under the aegis of the African Union (AU), aimed at ending the two-year conflict in the north of the…