Government says three Tigray People’s Liberation Front officials were killed and five party members captured. Ethiopia on Wednesday said its military killed three members of the Tigray region’s former ruling party, including former Ethiopian foreign minister Seyoum Mesfin. Five members of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front were captured and the three killed after they refused […]
Source: The National News Relations between the two governments, which both field substantial armed forces, are rapidly worsening. Sudan says government-backed Ethiopian militiamen killed five women and a child during a raid just inside its territory, further fuelling tension in the border region. On Wednesday, Sudan warned of “dangerous consequences” for bilateral relations after an Ethiopian […]
Source: National Interest | Jordan Cope With four burgeoning safe havens, ISIS has revived in Sub-Sahara and could be deadlier than ever. – Before 9/11, many forget that Osama Bin Laden largely made a name for himself in Sub-Saharan Africa. In Sudan, he conceived his Islamic Army Shura, laying “the groundwork for a true global terrorist network” […]
Ethiopia denies Sudan’s claim, which it said was a ‘dangerous escalation’ in the border dispute between both sides. Sudan says an Ethiopian military aircraft entered its airspace in “a dangerous escalation” to a border dispute that has seen deadly clashes in recent weeks. “In a dangerous and unjustified escalation, an Ethiopian military aircraft penetrated the […]
Age of victims of attack in Metekel zone in Benishangul-Gumuz region ranged between two and 45, says Ethiopian Human Rights Commission. More than 80 civilians, including children as young as two years old, have been killed in the latest attack to afflict western Ethiopia, according to the country’s national human rights commission. Aaron Maasho, […]
Source: Al-Monitor | Payton Knopf and Jeffrey Feltman With the Horn of Africa increasingly becoming an integral part of the Middle East’s security landscape, the fallout from Ethiopia’s current crisis will have a significant impact on states of the region. The Gulf Arabs recognize a strategic reality that has eluded the stove-piped US foreign and security […]
Ethiopia’s security forces have “neutralized” 265 suspected Oromo Liberation Army (OLA) mutineers in Oromia regional state, state media outlet Fana Broadcasting Corporate (FBC) reported on Monday. The 265 suspected insurgents were killed in military actions carried out in the past two months, FBC said. Six suspected OLA insurgents and 87 of their accomplices have also […]
Sudanese helicopter crashes near Ethiopian border, crew members survived. A Sudanese military helicopter crashed in the border region with Ethiopia, all crew members survived, the official SUNA news agency reported on Wednesday. The military helicopter crashed after taking off from Wad Zayed airport in the state of Gedarif, which borders Ethiopia. “The crew tried to […]
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Source: Military Watch Magazine Ethiopia has long faced a precarious security situation, enduring threats from a number of sources including the Al Shabab militant group operating from neighbouring Somalia, territorial disputes with neighbouring Eritrea which is highly militarised and fields a relatively well trained force of over half a million, and the Egyptian Air Force due to […]