As soon as he starts to speak, Asmelash Desta begins to scowl, his gentle features darkening under the shadow of a troubled brow. In the heat of a tin-roofed cafe in Semera, the sweltering capital of ...
For weeks there had been troubling signs: homes raided by unknown assailants; activists beaten in the street. Then, on March 11th, armed men appeared in Adigrat, a town in Ethiopia’s semi-autonomous ...
In November 2022, the Ethiopian government and Tigrayan forces signed the Pretoria peace agreement – described by the African Union as a “new dawn” – to halt a devastating two-year conflict that ...
Both sides have accused each other of violating the truce that had been in place since late March - Copyright WanNaiks Gallery/AFP Handout Both sides have accused ...
Biete Abba Libanos (House of Abbot Libanos), a rock-cut monolith Orthodox church located in Lalibela, Ethiopia. (via It’s been just over two years since a bloody war broke out in northern Ethiopia’s ...