While the rest of the world celebrated January 1st, 2026, Ethiopia remained in its year 2018. This is due to the nation's ...

Catholic bishops in Ethiopia have issued a far-reaching synodality message that speaks to the fear, suffering, and ...

Ethio Telecom is looking to develop a hyperscale data center in Ethiopia. The telco this week said it was in strategic talks with Shandong Hi-Speed Group Co. Ltd. about building a hyperscale data ...

Ethiopia ranks on the IRC’s 2024 Emergency Watchlist as drought-stricken communities face the twin threats of conflict and the likelihood of El Niño-induced flooding. Although the ceasefire between ...

Ethiopian jazz musician Mulatu Astatke smiled as he held his arms aloft to acknowledge his audience. Last month in London, ...

On one side of the street, an old goat herder is guiding his dirt-flecked flock. On the other, a young boy with short arms and no hands—only stumps—is begging me for money. “Crazy Addis,” says our ...

Born and raised in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Tommy T is best known as the bassist for Gogol Bordello, a worldly punk band out of New York. He came to the U.S. with no intention of becoming a musician, ...

The fact that it was never colonized? Or that Rastafarians regard it as their spiritual home? Or could it be the smooth, well-maintained roads, so rare on the continent, that make exploring the ...

Fearful silver-medalist Feyisa Lilesa is undecided about where to go next. — -- Ethiopian marathon runner Feyisa Lilesa has not returned to his home country since making anti-government ...

Mulatu Astatke experienced his musical conversion as a teenager while supposedly studying engineering abroad, mastering piano, vibraphone and Latin percussion in London, Boston and New York. After he ...

You’d expect a conversation with Mulatu Astatke to be about music. He is, after all, the father of a musical genre: Ethio-jazz. But when he talks about the art form, he tends to focus on its ...