President Donald Trump met the presidents of five African nations -- Senegal, Liberia, Guinea-Bissau, Mauritania and Gabon -- ...

Are Ethiopia and Eritrea hurtling towards war? The two countries’ historically fraught relationship was mended in 2018, but hostilities are flaring again.

Analysis - Ethiopia's ambition to secure Red Sea access, Eritrea's interference in Ethiopia's internal affairs and a power struggle in Tigray could explode into a wider regional war. Mediation is ...

11/14/2023 Ethiopia and Eritrea made peace in 2018, formally ending their border conflict. But control of the Assab port, which serves both countries, has sparked new tensions and led to fears of ...

Eritrea has launched a full-scale offensive against Tigray along the country’s border with northern Ethiopia in what appeared to be an escalation of last month’s renewal of fighting.

Ethiopia and Eritrea have been bitter enemies for decades, fighting a border war in 1998-2000 that cost nearly 80 000 lives and remains a flashpoint today.

In 1998 fighting broke out and raged for two years, ending with a peace deal that Ethiopia refused to accept. It rejected the agreement’s handing of key border locations to Eritrea.

Ethiopian military officials on Friday announced they are moving troops away from the border with Eritrea, months after the former rivals made a surprising peace.

Almost everywhere you go in Zalambessa, a town on Ethiopia's border with Eritrea, there are reminders of war: buildings in rubble, walls riddled with bullet holes and a border still delineated by ...

Ethiopia and Eritrea were once a single country. Eritrea gained independence amicably from Ethiopia in 1993, but a few years later, the countries went on to wage one of Africa's deadliest wars.