The civil war that has killed hundreds of thousands of people in the northern Ethiopian region of Tigray may have come to an end on its second anniversary.
Before the latest attack,at least 146 people had been killed and 213 injured in air strikes in Tigray since October 18.
The continent is destabilised by conflicts in Ethiopia,Somalia and South Sudan. Beijing hopes its new envoy will help end them.
The government has declared a state of emergency and urged the capital 5 million residents to register their weapons and defend their neighbourhoods.
The Ethiopian government earlier called a ceasefire but the People’s Liberation Front said it anticipated retaliation and called on residents to rally behind it.
Condemned by the US,Ethiopia’s Nobel peace prize-winning Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has acknowledged atrocities and withdrawn Eritrean troops from Tigray.
Ethiopia’s Nobel Peace Prize-winning Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed had “guaranteed” that Eritrean forces had not entered the domestic conflict.
Most citizens of Nigeria - Africa's most populous nation and biggest economy - and Eritrea would be blocked from coming to live and work in the United States under the measure.
Thousands gathered in a series of rallies across the country to voice their opposition to offshore processing of refugees and asylum seekers,declaring the policy had run for"six years too long".
The first commercial flight from Ethiopia to Eritrea in 20 years has landed safely in Asmara a week after"state of war"declared over.
Ibrahim Jahar lives in Melbourne,but when he holds up his phone you are transported to the land he left behind,gunshots and people running for cover.