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The city of Mekele is seen through a bullet hole in a stairway window of the Ayder Referral Hospital in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia in May last year.

‘We have agreed to silence the guns’: Ethiopia civil war truce signed

The civil war that has killed hundreds of thousands of people in the northern Ethiopian region of Tigray may have come to an end on its second anniversary.

  • Declan Walsh, Abdi Latif Dahir and Lynsey Chutel

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Residents sift through rubble from a destroyed building at the scene of an airstrike in Mekele, in the Tigray region of northern Ethiopia, in late October.

Dozens of displaced Tigrayans killed in drone strike

Before the latest attack, at least 146 people had been killed and 213 injured in air strikes in Tigray since October 18.

China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi, left speaks with Kenya’s Foreign Affairs Cabinet Secretary Raychelle Omamo, after a press conference, at the Sarova Whitesands Hotel in, Mombasa, Kenya, on Thursday.

With avocado deal clinched, China aims to be peacemaker in Africa

The continent is destabilised by conflicts in Ethiopia, Somalia and South Sudan. Beijing hopes its new envoy will help end them.

  • Duncan Miriri
The aftermath of an Ethiopian government air strike on Mekele, Tigray, last week.

Ethiopians told to take up arms as Tigray forces advance on capital

The government has declared a state of emergency and urged the capital 5 million residents to register their weapons and defend their neighbourhoods.

  • Max Bearak
Aid workers are reluctant to accepted military escorts as the armed forces have been accused of atrocities.

Tigray rulers claim control of the embattled region’s capital

The Ethiopian government earlier called a ceasefire but the People’s Liberation Front said it anticipated retaliation and called on residents to rally behind it.

  • Max Bearak
Orthodox Christian Tigrayan refugees who fled the conflict pray in front of a church at Hamdeyat Transition Centre in Sudan near the Ethiopian border.

‘Horrific’: Men forced to rape family members in Tigray, says UN

Condemned by the US, Ethiopia’s Nobel peace prize-winning Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has acknowledged atrocities and withdrawn Eritrean troops from Tigray.

  • Michelle Nichols
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Ethiopian military in an armored personnel carrier, on a road in an area near the border of the Tigray and Amhara regions of Ethiopia.

Ethiopian army official confirms Eritrean troops in Tigray

Ethiopia’s Nobel Peace Prize-winning Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed had “guaranteed” that Eritrean forces had not entered the domestic conflict.

  • Cara Anna
Nigeria's President Muhammadu Buhari

Nigeria scrambles following US immigration ban

Most citizens of Nigeria - Africa's most populous nation and biggest economy - and Eritrea would be blocked from coming to live and work in the United States under the measure.

  • Danielle Paquette
A crowd joins the Six Years Too Long rally to call for refugees in detention to be brought to Australia.

'Our lives have stopped': Refugees' stories of trauma, hope and reunion

Thousands gathered in a series of rallies across the country to voice their opposition to offshore processing of refugees and asylum seekers, declaring the policy had run for "six years too long".

  • Jocelyn Garcia
Flags, flowers greet for foes turned friends: Ethiopia and Eritrea

Flags, flowers greet for foes turned friends: Ethiopia and Eritrea

The first commercial flight from Ethiopia to Eritrea in 20 years has landed safely in Asmara a week after "state of war" declared over.

  • Aaron Maasho

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