Sources: Reuters
Intense fighting between the Fano militia and the Ethiopian government breaks out in Bahir Dar, the capital of the Amhara Region. 2024-03-1
USAID announces the resumption of food aid distribution to Ethiopia following an agreement with the Ethiopian government on enhanced monitoring measures. USAID suspended aid delivery in June due to allegations of diversion. 2023-11-14
Ethiopian airstrikes hit Mekelle University's business campus and a Dimtsi Weyane radio station. 2022-09-13
According to the government of Ethiopia's Somali Region, militants from the Afar Region attack for the fourth day the Somali town of Garbaiisa, killing up to 300 people. In response, protesters set up roadblocks along a highway leading to Djibouti and damaged parts of the Addis Ababa–Djibouti Railway, threatening Ethiopia's economy. This comes after multiple days of fighting between Afar and Somali militants in Garbaiisa. 2021-07-27
Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed admits for the first time that Eritrean troops entered Ethiopia's Tigray Region and fought the rebel Tigray People's Liberation Front, and that they may have been involved in war crimes. Abiy says that Eritrean forces promised to leave the region as soon as Ethiopia's military was able to "control the border". 2021-03-24
The Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) launches rockets at Bahir Dar, capital of Ethiopia's Amhara Region, raising fears that the conflict could grow into a wider war. Amhara Region authorities report that the "illegal" TPLF group "launched a rocket attack around 1:40 am" but that the attack caused no damage. 2020-11-20
USAID announces the Trump administration dedicated $169 million to feed people facing starvation in Ethiopia and Kenya, adding to earlier assistance for those suffering from drought and conflict in the region. 2017-08-3
Al-Shabaab says it has killed at least 60 Ethiopian soldiers in an attack on an AMISOM base in central Somalia. 2016-06-9
Ethiopian forces, supported by Somaliland, kill 123 members of the rebel Ogaden National Liberation Front in the east of the country and surround a further 90 rebels. 2010-09-15
At least five people are killed and 20 others are injured by a bomb blast at a cafe in the Ethiopian town of Adi Haro. 2010-04-25