Officials are expediting return of the displaced to their villages of origin Jemila Seid, 46, arrived in the eastern city of Dire Dawa along with many others here on September 2017, after conflict broke out along the border between Oromia…
Interns complain of poor pay, heavy workloads and repeated over-time, inadequate facilities. The protests that started recently by final-year medical students and interns working in government hospitals in Jimma town and later in Assela which was met by a crackdown…
“A regime that has been thriving on dictatorship for twenty years is not expected to reform itself in twenty months. What we are witnessing today is a reflection of this,” said Ustaz Ahmed Mustufa, member of the Ethiopian Muslim Arbitration…
Tigray security forces have detained a dozen of opposition members on Sunday in Quiha sub-city of Mekele town who were taking part in a national clean-up campaign launched by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, Abraha Desta of Arena Tigray said. This…
Seeing is what eyes are for, Before the spell on life span is dimmed, Fourteen years have gone by, And to Azabo I returned … I observed her confines, And gave ear to her vibes … Hearing is what ears…
At a recent public meeting organised by the newly nominated city mayor, a young woman who lives in Mermasa area of Dire Dawa depicts a city that is going through a period of polarizing tension and widespread anxiety. Her message,…
“Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly encountered, given and transmitted from the past.” (Marx) That in the…
Over the last three decades, South African photographer Guy Tillim, 56, has borne witness to the dramatic change in African metropolises. While working as a photographer for Reuters and Agence France Press, he has often been at the right place…
The Gedeo displacement crisis in Guji zones in the south of Ethiopia has been largely overlooked and neglected, even though it has been going on for a year. At the peak of the crisis last July over 900,000 ethnic Gedeos…
Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed yesterday responded to the multi-ethnic disputes on the ownership of Addis Ababa, saying that “Addis Ababa belongs to all of us.” “As to the people who are engaged in the debate, who does Addis Ababa rightly…