Anger erupted in Chagni town, located in the Agew Awi Zone of the Amhara Region, following the shooting of two young men during a traffic stop. The regional government has arrested six suspects, including a kebele administrator. The victims, Meseret…
In 1987, at the Cannes Film Festival, the first African film ever screened in the official competition won the Jury Prize. Malian filmmaker Souleymane Cissé was called to the stage, ascending in a sky-blue boubou embroidered with multicolored silk thread…
Eight artisanal miners were killed on Monday in Seba Boru Woreda of the Guji Zone in the Oromia region after a tunnel they were digging for gold collapsed, the woreda administrator said. The incident occurred at 3 p.m. at an…
World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, who has been in open conflict with the Ethiopian government, is set to arrive in Addis Ababa for the African Union Heads of State Summit on February 18-19. During his visit, he is…
It had only been a few months since Samuel Bayisa Tufa arrived in Dubai. Born and bred in the Oromia region’s Burayu district, northwest of Addis Ababa, he had been a management student at Oromia State University. But he interrupted his studies and…
