On June 1, Ethiopia held parliamentary elections. Results should come out this week, and Reuters along with many other outlets is predicting a “landslide win”
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Sudan’s war is far from a binary struggle; it is a conflict where a web of local, regional, and global interests and tensions has converged
“Ethiopian working people’s incomes are simply so low that they cannot be pilfered very much further.” Dr. Samuel Andreas Admasie is a researcher and archive
In the global reckoning with slavery, Ethiopia occupies an ambiguous space. Often romanticized as the lone African polity to successfully resist European colonization and celebrated
From Fatteh In their inaugural editor’s letter Beza Lealem explains why they launched Fatteh — the first magazine of its kind for LGBTQ+ people in
In mid-June, a highly choreographed show of bonhomie was organised at the Mereb Bridge in Tigray, which connects Ethiopia’s northernmost region to Eritrea. Waving Eritrean and
Africa today stands at a crossroads, caught between internal crises, shifting global power dynamics, and the slow unraveling of the post-liberation political order. Across the
Teklehaymanot (Tekle) Weldemichael grew up in central Tigray. He received his Bachelor’s in Ethiopia before spending several years between Ethiopia and Norway, where he continued
From the London Review of Books Review of: Understanding Ethiopia’s Tigray War, by Martin Plaut and Sarah Vaughan. Hurst, 2023 What are the major wars
Ethiopia has a population of 126mn and is the second most populous state in Africa, behind Nigeria. The urban population is less than a quarter