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Tigrayan regional authorities accused the federal government of carrying out drone strikes in the city of Mekelle on the night of Tuesday, August 30. “Nighttime drone attack in Mekelle, no conceivable military targets,” tweeted Getachew Reda, the TPLF spokesperson, adding…
There is fierce fighting still taking place around Kobo town between Tigrayan fighters and the federal troops on Monday, Deutsche Welle Amharic reported citing witnesses and residents. As fighting raged in Kobo and its vicinity, an increasing number of people…
Ethiopian army chief says country shot down a plane carrying weapons destined for rebel groups Tigray rebels have seized control of Kobo, a town located in the Amhara region along the main highway, 50 km from Woldia and 410 km…
The Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) said that it had only taken the fuel it had lent to the United Nations months back and it didn’t commit any robberies. TPLF said this in response to an allegation from the World…
Tigrayan forces say the federal government has conducted fresh air strikes in the region’s capital, Mekelle. The Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) spokesman Getachew Reda wrote in a tweet that the airstrike targeted a residential area and a kindergarten. Tigrai…
Gaibo had been suffering from malnutrition for over a month before he arrived at a clinic which treats children in the town of Karat in Konso woreda in the SNNPR region on 01 August 2022. He was five months old,…
(AFP)-From a makeshift camp in Ethiopia’s Afar region for people displaced by war, herder Abdu Robso stares in bewilderment at the food aid trucks rolling up the nearby hill towards Tigray. “Why is this food going to Tigray and not…
Deana Lawson is an African-American photographer who shoots intimate staged portraits that explore Blackness, legacy, and collective memory. Her practice borrows from simultaneous visual traditions, ranging from photographic and figurative portraiture, social documentary aesthetics, and vernacular family album photographs. Lawson…
Douglas Oliver (1937-2000) was a British poet known for his international conscience with a substantial reputation in the late 1980s and 1990s, finding a larger audience for his socially-committed poetry. The following poem, A Woman in Ethiopia appeared in the…
Yves-Marie Stranger came to Addis Ababa in 2000, planning to stay a few months. He stayed for fifteen years, working as a book editor, interpreter, and translator and as an owner of an equestrian stable, leading horse treks in the…