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Africa
9/1/2022 10:52:07 AM
Ethiopian and Eritrean forces launched a "massive" joint offensive against the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF) in the northern region of Tigray on Thursday, the rebels claimed.
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Africa
2/28/2022 1:21:40 PM
The scene has become all-too-common during Ethiopia's drawn-out war: thousands of Eritrean refugees, shell-shocked and separated from loved ones, fleeing on foot through harsh terrain to escape artillery and gunfire.
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World
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Africa
11/13/2021 1:20:33 PM
Ethiopia on Saturday denounced new US sanctions on neighbouring Eritrea over Asmara's role in the deadly conflict pitting Ethiopian forces against Tigrayan rebels, calling on Washington to "rescind its decision".
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World
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Africa
11/13/2021 11:56:41 AM
Eritrea slammed the United States on Saturday for slapping new sanctions on the country over the deadly conflict in neighbouring Ethiopia, calling the move "illicit and immoral".
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World
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Africa
11/12/2021 7:56:31 PM
The United States slapped sanctions on Eritrea's military and ruling party Friday, accusing them of contributing to the war in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region.
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Region
11/5/2021 3:37:33 PM
A train struck and killed a migrant from Eritrea and at least two bodies were recovered from the sea and on a beach in northern France during what has been a particularly deadly week for migrants attempting treacherous crossings to Britain.
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World
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Africa
10/9/2021 5:04:16 PM
A top official in the interim administration of Ethiopia's war-hit Tigray region told AFP Saturday he had fled the country and was seeking asylum, citing fears for his safety.
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World
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Africa
9/23/2021 12:56:57 PM
Dawit Isaak was among a group of around two dozen senior cabinet ministers, members of parliament, and independent journalists who were seized in a draconian purge in the East African country in September 2001
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International
9/16/2021 9:26:23 AM
Before fighting broke out Tigray was home to 92,000 Eritrean refugees, including 19,200 in the Hitsats and Shimelba camps, according to Ethiopia's Agency for Refugees and Returnees Affairs
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World
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Africa
8/24/2021 10:03:39 AM
The nine-month war has killed thousands of people and left observers shocked as Ethiopian PM, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, teamed up with former enemy Eritrea to wage war on the Tigray forces, with civilians not spared
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Africa
8/23/2021 9:29:00 PM
'The government of Eritrea rejects, both in letter and spirit, the utterly baseless allegations and blackmail directed against it,' the Eritrean foreign ministry said in a statement
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World
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Africa
8/23/2021 7:16:09 PM
The US Treasury Department said forces under the command of General Filipos Woldeyohannes, chief of staff of the Eritrean Defense Forces (EDF), are responsible for 'massacres, looting, and sexual assaults'
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World
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Africa
8/2/2021 9:56:20 PM
Fighting broke out on Sunday in several parts of the capital Djibouti, between the ethnic Afar group, which straddles Djibouti's borders with Ethiopia and Eritrea, and the Issa, Djibouti's other main ethnic group
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World
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Africa
7/29/2021 3:54:35 PM
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World
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Africa
7/27/2021 12:33:44 PM
The conflict pits rebels aligned with the region's former ruling party, the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), against forces backing Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, among them Eritrean soldiers
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Africa
7/23/2021 1:29:55 PM
The refugees are among the most vulnerable groups in the Tigray conflict, which broke out in November between the region's forces and Ethiopian federal troops. It has left thousands of people dead
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World
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Africa
7/14/2021 10:52:00 AM
After months of fear in a city occupied by Ethiopian soldiers and forces from neighboring Eritrea who pursued the Tigray regional leaders, crowds of Mekele residents rushed to the local security bureau to sign up to fight
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World
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Africa
7/13/2021 3:27:31 PM
The months of fighting has killed thousands of people, while the United Nations says hundreds of thousands are on the brink of famine
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World
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Africa
7/5/2021 10:21:29 PM
'In one, two or three weeks, 100,000 trained, armed and organised special forces can be mobilised, but officials had 'decided there should be a period of silence for everyone to think', Abiy Ahmed told lawmakers
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World
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Africa
7/3/2021 10:16:00 AM
Top UN officials warned the SC that more than 400,000 people in Ethiopia's Tigray were now in famine and that there was a risk of more clashes in the region despite a unilateral ceasefire by the federal government
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