The fighting has raised fears that a three-year-old peace deal could unravel, leading to another brutal war. The charred remains of a T-72 tank on a road that connects Shiraro to Shire on October 12, 2024. The two-year war in Ethiopia's Tigray region left hundreds of thousands people dead, more than one million still displaced and cost more than $20 billion in damage, until a peace deal in November 2022 ended the bloodshed [Michele Spatari/AFP] In northern Ethiopia, hundreds

Ethiopian refugees who fled Ethiopia's Tigray War arrive by bus from the Village Eight transit centre near the Ethiopian border at the...

Abiy speaking during the opening summit of the AU meeting. [Photo: Ethiopia's foreign ministry] The Tigray Defense Forces [TDF] has faulted the speech delivered by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed during the 25th Ordinary session of the African Union, arguing that it was full of hypocrisy and fell short of expectations. Ahmed, the Nobel Peace Prize winner of 2019, seemed to laud the African nations for their support throughout the Tigray conflict, adding that the crisis was "interna