A police officer has shot and killed a young man in Tigray as the region imposed a curfew amid efforts to slow the spread of the new coronavirus, according to reports. The officer shot and killed Hagos Nigus in Naeder…
Daniel Gebre, 34, drives a dilapidated Lada taxi. From his usual stand at Haya Hulet, he navigates his clients to different parts of Addis Ababa. He said business is slow these days, with customers opting for Ride, an Uber-style ride-sharing…
Reacting to PM Abiy’s recent harsh and indiscriminate detraction of African and, specifically, of Ethiopian intellectuals, comments were quick to flow that, not only contested the criticisms, but more seriously exposed their dangerous implications, the most glaring of them being…
Ethiopia has fewer confirmed Coronavirus cases, but fears grow about what happens if the country starts to experience a broader outbreak and how the health system would cope with it. Almaz Shiferaw, 45, wins her livelihood as a retailer of…
Ethiopia has announced three new confirmed cases of coronavirus, taking the total number of people infected by the virus in the country to nine. According to Ethiopia’s Health Minister Lia Tadesse, the cases involved a 44-year-old Japanese national, an 85-year-old…
Ethiopian flag-carrier Ethiopian Airlines has said that it is being improperly and negatively targeted by online postings on social media for its decision to continue operating in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak. The company said in a statement that…
Country bans public events as coronavirus cases hit five Chinese billionaire Jack Ma to donate test kits, masks to every African state The head of Oromia’s education bureau, Dr. Tola Beriso, has tested negative for coronavirus. Tola told BBC Amharic…
(This is the second installment in a three-part series looking at the memoir written by the Ethiopian intellectual, freedom fighter and opposition politician, Andargachew Tsige. Find the first part here.) Andargachew Tsigie’s narrative tells the emergence of Addis Ababa as…
(This is the first installment in a three-part series looking at the memoir written by the Ethiopian intellectual, freedom fighter and opposition politician, Andargachew Tsige.) Andargachew Tsigie and Meles Zenawi became friends- or more precisely, card-playing partners – one Christmas break…