The evidence also suggests the area was majority Tigrinya speaking prior to the federal era.
Efforts to resolve the dispute, including the 2014 agreement, have failed, and so new approaches need to be employed.
Ethiopia’s prime minister is becoming a leader without a solid political home.
An enduring political solution to the Amhara-Tigray land dispute does not exist in the system that created it
Two recently discovered 19th-century maps show Welkait as part of Tigray.
Deadly conflict in Garba Isse between Somali and Afar regional forces may have been the result of a larger conspiracy.