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What the rest of the world is publishing about the Horn of Africa — and what the Horn's own newsrooms are publishing about everywhere else.

These are headlines published by other newsrooms, not Hornafrika reporting. We show the headline, a short extract and a link; the full article stays with the publisher who wrote it, and copyright in each headline and extract remains with that publisher. How the wire works

ScopeHorn of AfricaWorldHeadlines naming Somalia, Ethiopia, Djibouti or Eritrea.
DW — AfricaInternational23 Sept 2026

Ethiopia: Fighting resumes in Tigray

Rebels in northern Ethiopia have seized regional airports and engaged government troops in Afar and Amhara. Observers fear deadly clashes could expand after rebels announced a new anti-government alliance.

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France 24 — AfricaInternationalGeorja CALVIN-SMITH21 Sept 2026

Ethiopia's main armed groups form anti-government alliance

In tonight's edition, a coalition of opposition groups band together in the hope of ousting Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed. Also, I speak to the deputy chief of the UN's peacekeeping mission in DR Congo. And with just a few days to go…

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The Guardian — WorldInternationalElla Creamer18 Sept 2026

‘We demand the truth’: Olga Tokarczuk and JM Coetzee lead calls for proof of life of disappeared Eritrean writers

More than 180 writers sign letter renewing calls for information on 12 authors detained incommunicado since 2001 crackdown on free speech by Isaias Afwerki More than 180 writers have signed a letter to Eritrean president Isaias Afwerki…

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The Guardian — AfricaInternationalAmanuel Gebremedhin and Karen McVeigh17 Sept 2026

Fifty billion trees by 2030: how Ethiopia is recruiting citizens across the country to plant, plant, plant

After losing much of its forests in recent decades, the country’s people have led the way in planting saplings across the country as part of the government’s Green Legacy Initiative When Halima Kedir first began planting trees, she was met…

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