The Latest Breaking News from Tigray

The United States humanitarian agency tells The Associated Press it is horrified by conditions in Ethiopia

Hunger-related deaths have risen since grain deliveries stopped after a nationwide scheme to steal supplies was exposed

Human Rights Watch accuses government-backed militias, officials of committing ‘war crimes and crimes against humanity’.

The war waged by the Ethiopian Federal Government and Eritrea against the Tigray regional government, which lasted from November 2020 to November 2022, caused massive devastation. Multiple war crimes were reported and there were claims of genocidal intent. A starvation campaign led to the death of at least 300,000 civilian…

Eritrea is widely considered to be one of the most repressive states in the world. Three decades after gaining independence form Ethiopia in 1993, the impoverished Horn-of-Africa nation is still ruled by the same man – Isaias Afwerki.

Tigray residents say Eritrean troops and soldiers from the neighbouring Amhara region are yet to leave, despite a truce.

Thousands of people demonstrated on Tuesday in northern Ethiopia's Tigray region to demand the return home of people displaced by a two-year war there and the withdrawal of outside forces that have remained since the conflict ended.

Living in UN camps in a rapidly collapsing Sudan, refugees from Ethiopia are being kidnapped, taken across the Sahara, and tortured for ransom – in a brutal, multimillion-dollar industry

The countries have a long history of getting involved in each other’s affairs, leading to fears of a regional crisis.