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![<p>People sit on a pickup truck as they prepare to travel about 250 kilometers south to Adré, on the Chad-Sudan border, at a transport station in Tine, eastern Chad, on November 25, 2025. The movement comes amid the ongoing conflict between the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and the Sudanese army.</p>]()
![An Ethiopian flag flutters in the wind next to the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, built along the Blue Nile, during its inauguration in Guba, Ethiopia on September 9, 2025.]()
By Michelle Gavin![<p>Ethiopian government representative Redwan Hussien and Tigray delegate Getachew Reda attend signing of the AU-led negotiations to resolve the conflict in northern Ethiopia in Pretoria, South Africa, on November 2, 2022.</p>]()
By Michelle Gavin- Backgrounder
Somaliland: The Horn of Africa’s Breakaway State
![<p>Somaliland’s Independence Monument in Hargeisa depicts a hand holding a map of the area.</p>]()
![<p>Residents and militias stand next to houses destroyed by an airstrike during the fight between the Ethiopian National Defence Forces (ENDF) and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) forces in Kasagita, Ethiopia, on February 25, 2022. </p>]()
By Joshua Kurlantzick![<p>Chinese Premier Li Qiang meets with Myanmar’s leader Min Aung Hlaing for the eighth Greater Mekong Subregion Summit, in Kunming, China, on November 6, 2024.</p>]()
By Joshua Kurlantzick![<p>Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud walks near a Turkish Navy Ship after it docked at the Mogadishu Sea Port following the signing of a defense and economic agreement between Somalia and Turkey in Mogadishu, Somalia on April 23, 2024.</p>]()
By Michelle Gavin![<p>Somali protesters march against the Ethiopia-Somaliland port deal at the Yarisow stadium in Mogadishu, Somalia on January 3, 2024.</p>]()
By Michelle Gavin![<p>Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and Army Chief of General Staff, Birhanu Jula, watch a military parade during the 116th celebration of the Ethiopian Defense Force in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on October 26, 2023.</p>]()
By Michelle Gavin![<p>Members of Niger’s military junta attend a demonstration in support of the coup d’etat in Niamey, Niger on August 6, 2023. </p>]()
By Michelle Gavin![<p>A worker stands by bags of wheat during an official visit to the World Food Program (WFP) warehouse in Adama, Ethiopia on January 12, 2023.</p>]()
By Michelle Gavin![<p>Field Marshal of the Ethiopian National Defense Force Birhanu Jula shakes hands with Commander-in-Chief of Tigray forces Tadesse Werede Tesfay, after signing the implementation on cessation of hostilities agreement in Nairobi, Kenya on November 12, 2022.</p>]()
By Michelle Gavin![<p>A man sits beside a bus destroyed during the fighting between Ethiopia’s National Defense Force (ENDF) and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) forces in Lalibela town of the Amhara Region, Ethiopia, on January 25, 2022.</p>]()
By Michelle Gavin![<p>Members of the Amhara Special Forces march during the annual St. George’s Day celebrations in the Lalibela town of the Amhara Region, Ethiopia, on January 25, 2022.</p>]()
By Michelle Gavin![<p>U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken greets the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) Executive Secretary Workneh Gebeyehu during a meeting at the Sankara Hotel in Nairobi, Kenya on November 17, 2021.</p>]()
By Michelle Gavin![<p>Members of the Ethiopian National Defence Force march in the Shumsheha village near Lalibela town, Ethiopia on January 26, 2022.</p>]()
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![<p>Delegates attend the ceremony at the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) as it began producing electricity from its mega-dam on the Blue Nile in Guba Woreda, Benishangul Gumuz Region, Ethiopia on February 20, 2022.</p>]()
By Michelle Gavin![<p>Ethiopians who fled fighting in Tigray region gather in Hamdayet village, near the Sudan-Ethiopia border, eastern Kassala State, Sudan on November 22, 2020.</p>]()
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