The Latest Breaking News from Ethiopia

Devastating mudslides in southern Ethiopia claim lives, with rescue efforts ongoing amidst challenging terrain. Authorities and organizations provide aid.

Ethiopia’s Abiy Ahmed is the highest-level state visit to Sudan since the war began in April 2023.

Sudanese refugees in Ethiopia ask to be evacuated from the country after facing repeated attacks from local militias.

In tonight's edition: Ethiopia's prime minister becomes the first foreign leader to visit Sudan since its descent into brutal conflict as trapped residents from the besieged city of Al Fashir speak of drones hunting down civilians in the streets. Also, neighbouring South Sudan is facing more economic turbulence as the…

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In 1974, the fossilised bones of Lucy, a 3.2 million-year-old hominin, were discovered in Ethiopia. How has this remarkable skeleton disproved a Darwinian theory – and what links her to the Beatles?

In 1974, on a survey in Hadar in the remote badlands of Ethiopia, U.S. paleoanthropologist Donald Johanson and graduate student Tom Gray found a piece of an elbow joint jutting from the dirt in a gully. It proved to be the first of 47 bones of a single individual –…

This preschool in Ethiopia was designed by Studio MEMM to integrate learning with its surrounding context

New research has found that several countries could meet all their energy needs from solar panel systems floating on lakes. Climate, water and energy environmental scientists R. Iestyn Woolway and Alona Armstrong analysed how much energy could be produced by floating solar panels on just 10% of the water surface…

A FEW weeks ago in Tigray, Ethiopia, I sat with mothers who are terrified of the months ahead and worried about how they will feed their children ...

Since a fragile 2022 peace deal ended Ethiopia's two-year war between Tigrayan fighters and federal forces, there are signs of recovery in the capital of Tigray. Also, Zanzibar commemorates the abolition of slavery. The island was a key stopping-off point for Arab slavers across East Africa for hundreds of years.