Gerrit Kurtz, a researcher and conflict expert at the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), a Berlin-based think tank, traveled to the Tigray region in the fall of 2024.

Gerrit Kurtz, a researcher and conflict expert at the the German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP), a Berlin-based think tank, traveled to the Tigray region in the fall of 2024.

After years of increased tensions and hostilities between the TPLF and the governments of Ethiopia and Eritrea, fighting began when TPLF forces attacked the Northern Command headquarters of the ...

The war between Ethiopia's government forces and Tigrayan fighters killed hundreds of thousands of people and displaced ...

Addis Abeba– The Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) has stated that “the foremost choice of the people of Tigray and its leadership is peace,” following Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s call for ...

But, despite the cessation of hostilities, hundreds of thousands of people uprooted from their homes during the conflict continue to live in dire conditions. The war in Tigray was fought between ...

Prime Minister Abiy noted that for centuries, Tigray has repeatedly been engaged in conflicts with the central government. "The land of Tigray has become a battlefield; the people of Tigray have ...

And maps produced in a conflict region, such as Israel and the Palestinian territories, tell a rich story about the relationship between mapmaking and politics. During the British Mandate of ...

is still engaged in conflict with armed groups there. Some see the TIA’s regulation as a contingency in case tensions with the TPLF faction led by Debretsion Gebremichael, or regional security forces, ...

Northern Ethiopia has been beset by conflict since November 2020, when the federal government sent troops into Tigray after accusing the region's ruling party, the Tigray People's Liberation Front ...