By Dawit Endeshaw, Giulia Paravicini1 Min ReadFILE PHOTO: An internally displaced Ethiopian girl

REUTERS/ Giulia Paravicini Beside them lay the leftovers of lives cut short: family photographs

By Reuters Staff1 Min ReadGONDAR, Ethiopia( Reuters)-Tigrayan forces entered Ethiopia’s key northern town of Shire on Tuesday, two eyewitnesses told Reuters, cementing further territorial gains in the northern region of Tigray as the Ethiopian military and its allies pull back.“ Everybody is welcoming them and celebrating.... Now there are a lot( of Tigrayan forces) and most of them are in uniform, ” one resident told Reuters.... Both eyewitnesses declined to be named for fear of retaliation.

ADDIS ABABA/ NAIROBI, Oct 26( Reuters)-Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said on Thursday he would not invade any nation, in comments aimed at quelling neighbouring countries' concerns that he might use force to secure access to a sea port. Abiy told state media on Oct.... 13 that Ethiopia should assert what he called the landlocked nation's right to access the Red Sea as much as possible through peaceful means, raising tensions with regional governments and the spectre of a fresh conflict in

JUBA( Reuters)-Forces loyal to Vice President Riek Machar and a splinter group have clashed in South Sudan, but the two sides gave conflicting reports on Saturday-with each claiming to have killed dozens of soldiers from the other side. The latest clashes, threatening the country's fragile peace process, occurred in Magenis in the Upper Nile region, between forces loyal to Machar and those backing First Lieutenant General Simon Gatwech Dual.A spokesman for Machar's SPLM/ A-IO party, Lam Paul Gab

KHARTOUM( Reuters)-Sudan summoned Ethiopia's ambassador to Khartoum to inform him that 29 corpses found on the banks of a river abutting Ethiopia were those of Ethiopian citizens from the Tigray ethnic group, Sudan's foreign ministry said.It said in a statement late on Tuesday that the ambassador had been summoned on Aug.... 30 and was told that the bodies had been found between July 26 and Aug.... 8 on the Sudanese side of the Setit River, known in Ethiopia as the Tekeze. The corpses were ide

By Abdi Sheikh3 Min ReadMOGADISHU( Reuters)-Fighting in Somalia’s Galmudug state between the Somali army and its former ally, the Ahlu Sunnah Wal Jama’a militia, has killed 120 people over the past three days, a senior ASWJ official said on Monday. Analysts and residents have expressed fears that the fighting is derailing the former allies from their common effort to defeat the al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab insurgency.“ At least 120 people died and 600 were injured from both sides, ” Hassan Yare fr

( Reuters)-The leader of Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces( RSF) General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo said on Wednesday he met Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni, his first confirmed appearance outside of Sudan since the war between RSF and the Sudanese army broke out in April. Dagalo, whose whereabouts during the war have been unknown, said on X the two discussed developments in Sudan, as well as his vision for negotiations to end the war.... A source familiar with the matter said the meeting

ANTANANARIVO( Reuters)-Madagascar's army warned on Wednesday against any attempt to destabilise the country after the island nation's top prosecutor announced that two officers had been charged with inciting rebellion before the Nov.... The electoral commission declared the incumbent Andry Rajoelina the winner, and the constitutional court is due to certify the results on Friday.... She did not name the officers or provide their rank....

NAIROBI( Reuters)-The United Nations' migration agency has recalled a staff member identified by two U.N. sources in Addis Ababa as the head of its mission to Ethiopia over audio recordings containing criticism of senior U.N. officials.In the recordings, two women who say they work for the U.N.in Ethiopia but do not give their names tell a freelance journalist that some top U.N. officials globally sympathise with forces from the northern Tigray region that are fighting Ethiopia's government. Reu