French bank BRED Banque Populaire – part of the second-largest banking group in France – is planning to start commercial operations in Ethiopia, marking the first foray for a European bank in the country. “We are talking with Ethiopian officials…
One of the foremost Ethiopian washint players, Yohannes Afework, who helped to ensure the indigenous end-blown flute playing be heard and regarded as an esteemed melody instrument in the national music scene passed away at 72 in his home in…
Thousands of people have been internally displaced as part of the region’s crackdown on homes that authorities say are illegal The town of Legetafo, located in the Oromia regional state adjacent to the north-eastern suburbs of Addis Ababa, has seen…
Bulcha advises not to overburden the current government with too much expectation Opposition leader Bulcha Demeksa, 89, has declared his intention to run for a parliament seat, as the country builds up to an election scheduled for next year. He…
This is the second installment of the article entitled ‘Twenty eight years holed up in Italian Embassy.’ The guests have overstayed their welcome The book, “I noti ospiti” (‘Known guests’) sheds light on the untold story of the two former…
The hope was that by now they should have left the Italian Embassy in Addis Ababa where they have been given refuge for the past 28 years, and walked free. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed embarked upon a new course of…
Wolfgang Tillmans’ Fragile, opened on 14 February at the Modern Art Museum & the Goethe-Institut Addis Ababa, doesn’t just speak to the fragility of things or life but goes beyond that to question photography itself. Tillman’s photos have overcome the…
Thanks to a friend, I recently read an article written by Andreas Eshete and Samuel Assefa for a conference held in Addis Ababa and titled “Reflections on Expanding Ethiopia’s Democratic Space”. The article takes note of Ethiopia’s turn toward a…
The Ethiopian photographer Maheder Haileselassie’s recent work, Birth, features mothers in labour, delivery and newly born babies taken at Saint Paul’s Hospital Millennium Medical College in Addis Ababa. “Spending a week in total in the delivery ward, I tried to…
A statue of Emperor Haile Selassie, the last emperor of Ethiopia and a longtime ruler who served from 1930 until his overthrow by the Marxist regime in 1974, was unveiled outside the African Union’s headquarters in Addis Ababa on Sunday.…
