Abiy Ahmed

Survivors and witnesses accuse forces from neighbouring country of committing abuses in Ethiopia’s embattled region.

Warnings about press freedom deterioration as independent reporters endure harassment, denied access to embattled region.

Bickering over contested farmland along the border has in recent weeks deteriorated into armed clashes.

Region’s former president Abay Weldu and former vice president Abraham Tekeste are among those captured.

DRC reported the deaths of three security guards, IRC said one staff member was killed.

PM Abiy Ahmed says Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) is a ‘criminal clique’ that has been ‘thoroughly defeated’.

Abiy Ahmed also told Parliament army would not destroy Tigrayan capital Mekelle after capturing it recently.

Abiy rules out dialogue with TPLF during meeting with AU envoys, day after he announced ‘final phase’ of the conflict.

In statement hours after ultimatum for TPLF to surrender expired, PM asks Tigray capital’s residents to ‘stay indoors’.

Ultimatum for Tigray leaders to surrender set to expire at 16:30 GMT as international community calls for de-escalation.

Tigray is the last frontier in a battle over the character of the Ethiopian state.

As federal forces encircle Makelle and TPLF remains defiant, analysts fear capture of the city may not end the crisis.

We discuss the conflict in Tigray with a minister from Abiy Ahmed’s government and a member of the TPLF.

Why is Ethiopia on the brink of a civil war with forces in the north?