Interview with former Ethiopian leader edited to falsely attribute negative comments to him
Since Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed came to power in 2018 on a reform ticket, the country’s army has been battling ...
Africa's most remote country that's like a 'mini Italy'
The East African country Eritrea has been named a ‘mini Italy’, and with their close links within history, it’s no surprise. In 1890, Eritrea became an Italian colony and was the main base for the ...
The East African on MSN15d
Tigist Belay: Ethiopian woman helping victims of California fires
She and her two children are helping the victims of the wildfires that have left tens ...
The Washington Post27d
A D.C. artist’s glowing monuments to Black lives
The D.C.-born Ethiopian American artist’s installation ... Makonnen said she became fascinated with the ancient history of the area’s cross symbols, including evidence of their use among ...
The Financial Times21d
Oromay by Baalu Girma — the human price of war
Or the turgid revolutionary speeches delivered by the Chairman, based on the real orations of Mengistu Haile Mariam, Ethiopia’s Marxist-Leninist dictator when the novel was published in Amharic ...
Semitism goes far beyond Jewish culture
With a lot of focus on anti-Semitism in the world today, the term has often been mistaken as exclusive to Jewish people.
Khaleej Times on MSN12d
Dr Abraham Verghese, the author of 'The Covenant of Water', on what it means to navigate faith and reason
Most of us have our ideologies firmly rooted in the binaries of faith and reason. But real life is never quite that black-and ...
The revolutionary reggae legend
Reggae music originated in Jamaica in the 1960s. Its focus on social justice, as well as Rastafarian spiritual themes, also resonated with other popular folk music around the world at the time, such ...