A civil war within Ethiopia in which the Ethiopian army is advancing into the northern province of Tigray has been seriously escalated by the participation in hostilities of the neighbouring state of Eritrea, which has signed a peace agreement with Ethiopia.  In an apparent response to…

Abiy Ahmed, Ethiopia’s prime minister, has ordered the military to confront the Tigrayan regional government because, he says, it attacked a military base; he has also cited months of “provocation and incitement”. Heavy fighting is reported to have broken out in Tigray —the Northernmost of 9 regional…

Two Eritrean refugees (aged 36 and 41), enduring long-term detention without charge in a prison for criminals in Egypt, have been on hunger strike since yesterday, 27th October 2020, in protest at the prolonged injustice of their treatment. Both men have been detained for 8 years without…

Within Eritrean society, there exist questions of ownership of land that are frequently raised among people in villages and towns and which create some kinds of societal frictions. These questions are minor in nature and can easily be resolved through arbitration, with the help of village…