Ethiopia is a country haunted by dreams of empire and geopolitical complexes. Its intention to construct three new dams would create a strategic hydrological weapon capable of giving it unilateral ...

A recent flare-up in tensions in Ethiopia's Tigray, including reports of heavy artillery battles and drone strikes, has raised fears of a return to war in the northern state -- a conflict potentially ...

The highlands of north-west Ethiopia are being ravaged by one of the world’s most invisible wars. Since 2023, an insurgency led by Amhara nationalists – from the country’s second-largest ethnic group ...

Between 2020 and 2022, the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) fought a bloody war against Ethiopia’s federal government and its allies in Eritrea and the Amhara militias known as Fano. Less than ...

Ethiopia is at a crossroads. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, whose Prosperity Party won a majority of the vote in June’s general election, envisions a unified, centralized country. But many opposition ...