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Eritrean forces withdraw from Shire and other major towns in the Tigray Region of Ethiopia.
2023-01-21

Amharan Special Forces announce their withdrawal from the Tigray Region in line with an African Union-backed peace agreement between the Ethiopian government and the Tigray People's Liberation Front.
2023-01-16

The Commercial Bank of Ethiopia, the country's largest commercial bank, resumes operations in some Tigrayan cities and towns following the suspension of services during the Tigray War.
2022-12-19

An airstrike kills at least five people and injures 37 others in Tigray Region, Ethiopia.
2022-10-6

Ethiopia declares a six-month state of emergency as the Tigray Defense Forces (TDF) and Oromo Liberation Army gain control over areas outside of Tigray and the TDF announces its intention to advance to the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa. Authorities in Addis Ababa, in a separate announcement earlier in the day, tell citizens to register arms and prepare to defend their neighbourhoods.
2021-11-2

Rebels of the Tigray Defense Forces mobilize to retake western Tigray from Amharan militias.
2021-07-6

Thousands of captured Ethiopian prisoners of war are paraded through the streets of the Tigrayan capital of Mekelle flanked by Tigrayan fighters. Many of the soldiers appear to be wounded. Huge crowds form to taunt the captured soldiers.
2021-07-2

Doctors and medical workers in the Tigray Region say that more than 80 civilians have been killed and dozens more have been injured in an airstrike on a busy market in the village of Togoga. Ethiopian soldiers have reportedly prevented a convoy of ambulances from reaching the village.
2021-06-23

The African Union (AU) launches an official commission to investigate allegations of human rights abuses committed in Ethiopia's Tigray Region. The Ethiopian Foreign Ministry rejects the commission as "misguided" and without legal basis, saying that a joint probe by the AU and Ethiopia should be used instead.
2021-06-17

The United Nations says that the Ethiopian government is blocking aid from going to 2.3 million people in non-government-controlled rural areas in Tigray who are in dire need of assistance.
2021-02-6