Ethiopia (Tigray)

Several of the rebel groups which have been fighting the Ethiopian authorities in different parts of the country have announced they have formed an alliance to remove the government in Addis Ababa. The alliance brings together the Fano militia in Amhara, the Oromo Liberation Army (OLA), Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) and four other smaller groupings in a coalition named Alliance for Survival.

When Ethiopia’s federal government and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) signed the Pretoria Agreement in November 2022, it was meant to end two years of devastating war. … Nearly four years later, the large-scale war has ended, but many of the disputes that fuelled it remain unresolved. More significantly, the period since 2024 has seen the TPLF reposition itself politically and organisationally while retaining military leverage and developing new relationships. 

Military activity in and around the disputed city of Alamata has sparked concerns that the fragile peace that followed the 2020–2022 Tigray War could unravel. … The city is one of the most contested areas since the Tigray War. Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) forces took control of it at the start of this year, after Ethiopian federal troops withdrew. 

Fighting has broken out in western Tigray, in one of the most serious breaches yet of the three-year-old peace deal between Ethiopia’s federal government and fighters in the northern region.

Authorities in Ethiopia’s Tigray region have been abducting and forcibly recruiting children as young as 15 as it prepares for renewed conflict with the federal government, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Monday.

Voting in Monday's general election was suspended in parts of Ethiopia's Oromia and Amhara regions due to security concerns, but long voter queues were seen elsewhere, electoral commission head Melatwork Hailu announced. … In fact, the whole northern region of Tigray, which is trying to recover from a civil war that ended in 2022, has been totally excluded from the poll.

Ethiopia will hold its seventh national election on June 1, 2026. The vote takes place as Gulf states compete for influence in the region and the rivalry between Ethiopia and Egypt over the Nile intensifies.

A confrontation between Addis Ababa and the leadership of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front threatens to reignite a devastating conflict that came to a close three and a half years ago. In this Q&A, Crisis Group expert Magnus Taylor explains what is at stake.

The EU plans to provide Ethiopia with a total of €140 million in direct financial support. The move marks a shift in European policy, after direct aid to the country had previously been suspended over the war in Tigray.

Tigray's main political party, TPFL, said it was taking back control of the ​region's government, effectively voiding a peace deal with Ethiopia's federal government that ended one of the century's deadliest conflicts.