“The prime minister laid out a very detailed and clear vision,” said Ethiopia’s foreign minister Gedion Timothewos. “He wants to revitalise the status of Addis Ababa as Africa’s capital” and “leave a ...

Biruktawit Tasew's fingers glide over the strings of the begena, producing a deep, hypnotic sound. The begena "is medicine ...

A symbol of continental unity since 1961, Africa Hall in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa has undergone a sweeping ...

Since 2020, violence in Western Oromia--particularly in the East Wollega and Horo Guduru Wollega zones--has destabilized the region, displacing hundreds of thousands, claiming thousands of lives, and ...

Menelik II- illustration, 1906. Pictured with his palace in Addis Ababa in Ethiopia. From Liebig collectible card (French ...

Ethiopian National Defense Force (ENDF) Chief of Staff, Field Marshal Birhanu Jula, has described Adwa as a victory that ...

The victory of Adwa altered the belief prevailed during the colonial era that Africa's fate was destined to be under European ...

Ethiopia did what no other African country had done—it stopped a European power in its tracks. The Battle of Adwa, as ...

This Week in History, thousands of men and women take up arms in a desperate struggle to decide the independence of Africa’s second-to-last uncolonized country: Ethiopia.

King Thutmose II’s tomb, the last undiscovered royal tomb of Egypt’s 18th dynasty, was found by a British-Egyptian team in the Western Valleys of the Theban Necropolis, near Luxor. For years ...

This was a direct attack on Ethiopia’s proudest moment—Adwa, where Emperor Menelik II, the father of challenge to their colonial religious policies. While the world rightly condemned Nazi Germany’s ...