BND - Eritrean troops enter northern Ethiopian towns

🗞️ Story file #227

Eritrean troops enter northern Ethiopian towns

Oct 8, 9 AM ET to Oct 8, 7 PM ET

10outlets carried it
🫏5 · 3 · 2🐘left · center · right
10 hourson the front pages
9front pages at once, at its peak
5 minof TV captions
2 of 2parts of a saga

👣 How this story traveled: from the front pages that broke it, out through TV, radio and the shows, into what people retold and what fact-checkers examined, and on into the saga it is part of. Everything here is matched to the story by our tools, so a link can be wrong; the trackers' pages say how each is made.

Oct 8, 9 AM ETfirst on a front page: AP
Oct 8, 12 PM ETfirst on TV: BBC News
Oct 8, 7 PM ETpeak: on 9 front pages

the front pages that ran it, hour by hour

Front pages carrying it at each hourly run, Oct 8, 9 AM to Oct 8, 7 PM ET (peak 9), by the outlets' lean: left · center · right

Who carried it and when: each outlet in the order it picked the story up, a bar for each headline from when we first saw it on the front page to when we last did, in the outlet's lean color (dashed: not rated); a dot marks a new headline. Beneath, its captions on TV, the radio newscasts that carried it (bigger: the lead) and when people were found retelling it. Hover for details.

✏️ 2 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)

Reuters (2 wordings): “Eritrean troops drive through northern Ethiopian town, witnesses say” → “Drones target Eritrean troops inside Ethiopia, conflict monitor says”
The Guardian (2 wordings): “Ethiopia launches drone attack against Eritrean troops who crossed into Tigray” → “Ethiopia’s return to conflict: civilian catastrophe and a spiralling regional polycrisis”

Every outlet's first headline (10), left to right by AllSides rating