A slope failure struck Tsadkane Debre Metmik Saint Mary Monastery in Ethiopia's Amhara region at around 07:00 local time on August 3, killing at least 14 people who had gathered for a religious ritual, according to Ethiopian state media; search and rescue teams were continuing operations on August 4 with local reports suggesting additional victims remained under debris.

Tigray's administration accused Addis Ababa on August 3 of launching a new offensive after fighting erupted on Saturday in western Tigray, while Ethiopia's government said the TPLF was mobilizing for armed confrontation; both sides deny provoking the clashes; the 2022 Pretoria peace agreement is at risk

Ethiopia's long-awaited National Dialogue Conference officially opened in Addis Ababa on July 15, 2026, launched by the Ethiopian National Dialogue Commission five years after the body was established by parliament in 2021; the conference is structured around eight themes including nation-building, constitutional status of Addis Ababa, transitional justice, and peace-building, with participants ranging from farmers and internally displaced persons to ministers and military officers, who all sit on equal footing

The EU Delegation to Ethiopia warned on June 28 that the TPLF's door-to-door military roundups and new parallel government breach the 2022 Pretoria peace deal; the TPLF denies compulsory recruitment

The Egypt-Ethiopia-Sudan dispute over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam has no binding operating rules, and Egypt, with 105 million people, sources 97% of its water from the Nile.

Ethiopia faces three simultaneous insurgencies, Fano in Amhara, the OLA in Oromia, and the TPLF standoff in Tigray, while edging toward interstate war with Eritrea.

With the dam inaugurated and the reservoir near 24 billion cubic metres, Cairo says the unilateral June filling threatens its water security as the Blue Nile drops

Le Monde and US lawmakers say Abu Dhabi opened covert cargo routes via Ethiopia and CAR to keep arming the RSF, contradicting assurances given to Washington

Results confirmed June 21 with 90% of ballots counted; EZEMA wins 13, NaMA 6; monitors say voting was free in fewer than half the constituencies

Fighting between Fano militias and federal forces hit 22+ districts across nine Amhara zones in mid-June; Addis pushed June parliamentary elections in disputed Tigray areas over TPLF objections

At the G7 Trump says the dam is causing Egypt 'tremendous problems' and offers to restart US Nile mediation, six months after Ethiopia inaugurated Africa's largest hydro project

Addis has redeployed heavy weaponry and mechanised units to Afar within striking distance of Eritrea's Assab port; Abiy's Red Sea ambition and a fractured TPLF turn an old enmity into a powder keg