Addis Ababa: The 12th edition of the Tana High-Level Forum on Security in Africa, one of the continent’s pioneering high-level platforms on peace and security, started Friday in Bahir Dar, the capital of Ethiopia’s Amhara region. This year’s forum, held under the theme “Pathways to Peace in Africa: Economic Sovereignty and Geopolitical Transformation,” runs from Oct. 23 to 25, 2026. Ahead of the official opening, several side meetings and a special envoy dialogue were held in Bahir Dar. Former Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Dessalegn, along with former African heads of state, ambass...
Addis Ababa: The 12th edition of the Tana High-Level Forum on Security in Africa, one of the continent’s pioneering high-level platforms on peace and security, started Friday in Bahir Dar, the capital of Ethiopia’s Amhara region. This year’s forum, held under the theme “Pathways to Peace in Africa: Economic Sovereignty and Geopolitical Transformation,” runs from Oct. 23 to 25, 2026. Ahead of the official opening, several side meetings and a special envoy dialogue were held in Bahir Dar. Former Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Dessalegn, along with former African heads of state, ambass...
Addis Ababa: Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio held a phone conversation on Wednesday, Oct. 14, amid rising tensions between Ethiopia and neighboring Eritrea. The U.S. Department of State said the call focused on ways to de-escalate tensions between the two countries and reaffirmed Washington’s support for the process. Rubio also stressed that countries in the Horn of Africa should respect their neighbors’ territorial integrity and sovereignty. Diplomatic tensions between Ethiopia and Eritrea have worsened, with both countries closing their respec...
Addis Ababa: Following the rapid advance of the Ethiopian National Defense Force (ENDF) toward Tigray’s regional capital, Mekelle, various scenarios are emerging, including the possibility that the Tigray Peace and Change Council could take charge of the region if the government unseats the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), according to the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED). In its latest webinar, ACLED outlined several scenarios, including the possibility of Getachew Reda’s Tigray Peace and Change Council taking the lead in Tigray. ACLED al...
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By Kirubel Tesfaye The wars in Sudan and Ethiopia are increasingly connected by allegations of cross-border military involvement and competing political narratives circulating on social media, which risk deepening mistrust and heightening tensions in the region. Posts, videos and images have been used to allege that Ethiopia is supporting Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF), while other claims accuse Sudanese actors of backing Tigrayan fighters. Some of these posts present images of military camps, armed personnel and aircraft as evidence of foreign involvement. But how much do these clai...
September 27, 2026
Addis Ababa: The 12th edition of the Tana High-Level Forum on Security in Africa, one of the continent’s pioneering high-level platforms on peace and security, started Friday in Bahir Dar, the capital of Ethiopia’s Amhara region. This year’s forum, held under the theme “Pathways to Peace in Africa: Economic Sovereignty and Geopolitical Transformation,” runs from Oct. 23 to 25, 2026. Ahead of the official opening, several side meetings and a special envoy dialogue were held in Bahir Dar. Former Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Dessalegn, along with former African heads of state, ambass...
Addis Ababa: Severe funding and resource shortages are forcing mobile health and nutrition teams to shut down services in Ethiopia’s conflict-affected Amhara region, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said. OCHA reported that the number of operational teams has fallen from 57 to 16, with 10 of the remaining 16 teams set to shut down by the end of October. Humanitarian access remains severely limited in the region as the conflict intensifies and spreads to additional areas. According to OCHA, humanitarian partner organizations are preparing to ass...
Addis Ababa: Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio held a phone conversation on Wednesday, Oct. 14, amid rising tensions between Ethiopia and neighboring Eritrea. The U.S. Department of State said the call focused on ways to de-escalate tensions between the two countries and reaffirmed Washington’s support for the process. Rubio also stressed that countries in the Horn of Africa should respect their neighbors’ territorial integrity and sovereignty. Diplomatic tensions between Ethiopia and Eritrea have worsened, with both countries closing their respec...
By Kirubel Tesfaye The wars in Sudan and Ethiopia are increasingly connected by allegations of cross-border military involvement and competing political narratives circulating on social media, which risk deepening mistrust and heightening tensions in the region. Posts, videos and images have been used to allege that Ethiopia is supporting Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF), while other claims accuse Sudanese actors of backing Tigrayan fighters. Some of these posts present images of military camps, armed personnel and aircraft as evidence of foreign involvement. But how much do these clai...
Addis Ababa: Following the rapid advance of the Ethiopian National Defense Force (ENDF) toward Tigray’s regional capital, Mekelle, various scenarios are emerging, including the possibility that the Tigray Peace and Change Council could take charge of the region if the government unseats the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), according to the Armed Conflict Location & Event Data Project (ACLED). In its latest webinar, ACLED outlined several scenarios, including the possibility of Getachew Reda’s Tigray Peace and Change Council taking the lead in Tigray. ACLED al...
On September 26, 2026 a Facebook page with more than 440,000 followers shared a video asserting that Commander of TPLF Army 33 General Woldegiorgis Teklay (Sherifo) is calling for the surrender of TDF members. Conversely, Hornfrequency used open-source techniques to check the veracity of the claim and proved that the video is AI-generated, and rendered it as false/AI-generated. Screenshot shows a deepfake video of General Woldegiorgis sharing a message of surrender After the restart of the war in the northern part of Ethiopia a major offensive and defensive attack was seen by both the fe...