Addis AbabaEthiopia expelled 10 Eritrean diplomats on Thursday.
Eritrea cut all diplomatic ties in response, as federal forces advance on Tigray’s capital Mekelle.
Addis Ababa accuses Eritrea, Egypt and Sudan of backing the Tigray People’s Liberation Front alliance, and all three deny it.
Eritrea’s information minister Yemani Meskel called Ethiopia’s move a “declaration of war.”
African leaders meet at the Egypt-Africa Summit in Cairo, but no one has offered to broker talks.
How each outlet framed it
drawn from 150+ reports worldwide
- Vanguard
- Deutsche Welle
- maps tripartite diplomatic crisis (Ethiopia-Eritrea-Egypt), warns of AU mediation urgency amid expanding political frontlines
- Al Jazeera Online
- ThePrint
- maps Horn of Africa instability as node in Saudi-UAE, Iran-Houthi, Sudan rivalries; warns each intervention recalibrates others
- The Express Tribune
- reports tactical advances (Milazat capture, 20km south of Mekelle), documents civilian precautions and TPLF leadership dispersal
Sources: Vanguard, Deutsche Welle, Al Jazeera Online, ThePrint, The Express Tribune