From his home in the far north of Ethiopia, Hagos can see Eritrean soldiers positioned on the other side of his town, Alitena ...

The Irob, who mostly live in Ethiopia’s northeastern corner bordering Eritrea, face an existential crisis in addition to humanitarian suffering caused by ongoing conflict, activists say.

This means Haisie’s minority ethnic Irob community, spread across the region, could be rent in two, with some ending up in Eritrea while others remain in Ethiopia. “This decision will divide ...

The Ethio-Eritrean Boundary Commission has ignored the plight of the Irob nationality. The Commission has continued to rebuff and humiliate them with its unwavering and resolute ill-fated ...

What do you think some of these reservations might be? What is Irob? Why did Eritrea object to Irob? Why is Ahmed Tahir Baduri concerned about a resulting map of the buffer zone that puts ...

Like his forefathers, Fisuh and his four children have called this rugged mountainous area, straddling the Ethiopian-Eritrean border, their only home. For centuries, the Irob people have inhabited ...

After living in this region for more than 700 years, the tiny Irob ethnic group is torn, in its heart, by the border with Eritrea and engaged in a futile struggle for recognition dwarfed by the ...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia --Ethiopia and Eritrea have been informed of a new ... by both sides include the villages of Zalambessa, Badme, Irob and Alitena, all at the moment under Ethiopian ...

“We never know who is there, who’s listening to what,” Fissuh, of the Irob Advocacy Association, said. Eritrean, Ethiopian, and Amhara forces have been linked to most of the attacks on ...

The student in Europe also learned that her uncle and two nephews were killed by Eritrean soldiers during a recent holiday gathering. The Irob Advocacy Association, relying on witnesses who have ...