Bekele sets 02:01:30 marathon career target [Reuters]

By Alexander Cornwell | DUBAI Triple Olympic track champion Kenenisa Bekele, the second-fastest marathon runner in history, said on Wednesday he can shave around 90...

EXCLUSIVE – ‘Please just let me speak to my daughter’: Biological...

Mentewab Dawit Lebiso was forced to give her daughter up after she was raped Poverty stricken 31-year-old was attacked then fell sick after...

New drought strikes millions in Ethiopia, still reeling from El Nino

Reuters By Katy Migiro NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Millions of Ethiopians face a hunger crisis for a second consecutive year after drought hit sub-Saharan Africa's...

Farewell, Barack Obama! [Professor Alemayehu G. Mariam]

To: President Barack Obama: As I bid you farewell and adieu, I ask you three questions on matters that are enormously important to me: Is Africa...

Ethiopia: U.S. Embassy suspends travel to Gondar

The  U.S. Embassy in Addis Ababa is temporarily suspending all travel for U.S. Chief of Mission employees to Gondar until further notice. The Overseas Security...

Ethiopia: Year of Brutality, Restrictions (HRW)

Restore Rights, Address Grievances (Nairobi) – Ethiopia plunged into a human rights crisis in 2016, increasing restrictions on basic rights during a state of emergency...

Ethiopia: We MUST Keep Our Eyes on the Prize! [Professor Alemayehu...

I am calling for a truce in the war of words among Ethiopian scholars, intellectuals and others over history, historicity and historicism. I am...