Trucks bearing badly-needed food aid were stuck at a checkpoint outside Ethiopia’s war-hit Tigray region for a second day Tuesday, aid workers said, as the government and rebels blamed each other for stalling the deliveries.

Growing up, Arega Tekeba’s fondest memories involved the feasts his father would prepare for Ethiopia’s Orthodox epiphany festival Timkat – the way he would lead their family in song while roasting a freshly-slaughtered sheep. But those memories are now acutely painful.

One week ago, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed used his Orthodox Christmas message to call for “national reconciliation”, raising hopes of a breakthrough to end his country’s grinding 14-month-old war.

More than six million people in drought-hit areas of eastern and southern Ethiopia will need “life-saving” assistance this year, the UN’s emergency response agency said in a new report.

Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed announced a return to Addis Ababa after pro-government forces claimed advances against Tigrayan rebels.

What a year. There’s a new human trafficking case after 33 Ethiopians were found in Midrand, Johannesburg. October saw 50 other Ethiopians rescued in Lenasia and 11 more in Meadowlands.

“Our forces tasked with securing the harvest in Al-Fashaqa… were attacked by groups of Ethiopian army […]” Sudan’s armed forces said

Britain has been advising its citizens to leave Ethiopia since 9 November due to the worsening conflict between the government and the rebels

Following talks with visiting Kenyan counterpart, South Africa’s President said they had discussed the “grave situation” in Ethiopia

AU Obasanjo, “I, therefore, appeal to the leadership of all sides to halt their military offensives […] said of Ethiopia conflict

On Tuesday night a police official in Ethiopia’s Somali region announced that authorities were closing a private media outlet, Nabad TV.

On Tuesday, Foreign envoys got together to end the year-long war in Ethiopia, “This, therefore, constitutes a window of opportunity […]”

“The safety and security of UN staff remain at the highest priority for the UN in Ethiopia,” the spokesperson said

Washington has been among the most vocal critics of Ethiopia’s conduct of the year-long war in the country’s north.

The federal government Wednesday also announced a fresh air strike on Tigray — the latest in a campaign of aerial bombardments.

The government has also carried out a steady campaign of airstrikes in Tigray itself, hitting targets that are military […]

Tigray was pounded by near-daily aerial bombardments last week as the military stepped up its use of airpower in the year-long war

Last week, Ethiopia’s air force carried out 8 strikes on targets which the government said were military in nature and aiding the TPLF

The duo was arrested after nearly a dozen kidnapped Ethiopian nationals were rescued by police at a storage facility in Johannesburg

A fourth strike in Mekele, Ethiopia on Thursday did not result in any casualties, according to medics and the TPLF

“As such, the air raids may have the effect of strengthening the Tigrayan resolve to resist, rather than weaken it.”

The man accused of kidnapping 50 Ethiopian men faced his abducting charge in the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court.

“Air strike now in Mekele,” one humanitarian official in the city said via SMS to AFP on condition of anonymity

It is confirmed that 50 men that were found in Lenasia are kidnapped citizens from Ethiopia

The 50 men that police saved from a house in Johannesburg have turned out to be kidnapped Ethiopian nationals.