🚨NEWS: In a major development, more than 15,000 TPLF fighters have reportedly registered for Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration (DDR), paving the way for a transition to civilian life around Mekelle, Tigray.🕊️

🚨South Sudanese authorities say the death toll from Monday’s SAF drone attack on Amiet Market in the disputed Abyei Area has risen to 220, with 19 others injured. Recovery efforts are ongoing, and the death toll could rise further.

Former Tigray interim president Tadesse Werede told BBC Tigrigna that when he was being taken toward the Eritrean side of the border after allegedly being imprisoned by the TPLF, he thought the group had won the war and that he was being taken to Addis Ababa.

🚨U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio recently classified recent TPLF attacks as terrorism. Experts argue that if the TPLF is designated a terrorist organization, SAF under Al Burhan could also face serious scrutiny as an entity sponsoring terrorism over its drone supplies to TPLF Documents left behind by TPLF forces during their retreat from Mekelle shows detail drone and equipment support from SAF under Gen. al-Burhan to TPLF which is used by the group.

🚨 BREAKING: Reports say the Eritrean regime is calling for the urgent, full mobilization of Eritrean men and women across cities and towns throughout the country in preparation for war.

🇪🇹 Ethiopia’s industrial transformation is gaining momentum! From 2021–2025, the “Made in Ethiopia” initiative revived 1,115 factories, created 1.58 million jobs, and boosted import-substitution production to $5.96 billion. The next phase: expand exports, build new industrial capacity, and modernize services powering a more competitive, self-reliant Ethiopian economy. 🇪🇹📈

🚨 BREAKING: U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has labeled the TPLF as separatist and characterized its actions as terrorism.

🚨ENDF displayed weapons it captured from the TPLF to foreign military attachés. The weapons were reportedly smuggled from Eritrea to the TPLF.

🚨 NEW: Reports indicate that Eritrean regime forces attempted to destroy a bridge linking Ethiopia and Eritrea near Rama, reportedly firing multiple artillery shells at it following the town’s capture by federal forces.

🚨 ENDF has reportedly captured more TPLF arms and military equipment.

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and U.S Secretary of State Marco Rubio had phone conversation.

🇸🇩🇪🇹 Sudan’s Foreign Minister and Minister of international cooperation Mohieddin Salem says Sudan is open to dialogue with Ethiopia.

🚨 Isaias Miscalculation and Invasion Last week, Eritrean forces drove deep into Ethiopian territory, reaching the Idaga Hamus area. It may turn out to be one of the costliest decisions of Isaias Afwerki’s rule. Mekelle had fallen to ENDF & TPF forces, and the forces were shifting north toward Wukro. Asmara found itself facing a situation moving faster than anyone had planned for. Sending troops across the border may have been meant to build a defensive buffer, to shape the fighting, or to keep the war from reaching Eritrea’s own doorstep. Why Asmara moved The logic behind Eritrea’s advance may have been to establish a new buffer zone following the collapse of the Raya–Sekota front. With that front no longer providing the same strategic depth or acting as a barrier to further military movements, Eritrean regime may have calculated that pushing southward into Ethiopian territory was necessary to create an alternative perimeter. By pushing deep into Ethiopia, Isaias could create a buffer zone, buying time for exhausted, scattered TPLF forces to regroup and strike south again. His calculation, through the Tsimdo alliance, seems to have been that Addis Ababa was too stretched to respond. Isaias had likely judged it very unlikely that federal forces could reach the Eritrean border within two weeks. Isaias also knows something he will never say aloud. If Ethiopian forces moved the same distance from Zalambessa into Eritrea, they would be roughly halfway to Asmara. For Isaias, that is the nightmare scenario, and the deep push into Idaga Hamus looks like an attempt to make sure the fighting never gets that close. Why they pulled back This may have been the first time Eritrean forces faced sustained drone warfare on this scale. Reports suggest that military columns were repeatedly struck along the route from Zalambessa to Idaga Hamus. Vehicles that once carried soldiers to the front may have become death traps, forcing survivors to abandon them and flee on foot. If these accounts are accurate, the scene bears a haunting resemblance to the 1991 “Highway of Death,” when Iraqi forces were devastated while retreating from Kuwait. It may well have been an African version of that grim episode. Silence as the only option Eritrea is also trapped in a diplomatic dilemma. With its forces reportedly operating some 60 kilometres inside another country’s territory, the regime in Asmara faces an uncomfortable choice: acknowledge the losses and risk exposing the scale and consequences of its invasion, or publicly condemn the strikes and invite questions about what its troops were doing so deep inside Ethiopia. Either response could deepen Isaias Afwerki’s diplomatic troubles.

🚨Stay tuned An assessment of why the Eritrean regime recklessly pushed its convoys as far as Idaga Hamus and what unfolded as a result is coming soon.

🚨Video showing destroyed Eritrean regime truck inside Tigray, Ethiopia.

🚨 More TPLF losses

🚨 BREAKING: Reports indicate that Axum, Shiraro, and Zalambessa are now under the control of ENDF and TPF forces.

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had bilateral discussions.