Three Somali political organizations have announced the formation of a new alliance, the Somali People's Alliance for Self-Determination (SPAS), declaring what they described as the end of restraint ...

A loose Amhara militia network that fought the TPLF now wages a decentralised insurgency – and is pulling Addis Ababa and ...

Analysis - Ethiopia's National Election Board (NEBE) has confirmed that the seventh general election will be held in the ...

Fifteen years after construction first broke ground and barely five months on from its inauguration, the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) has come once ...

‎Ethiopia is not so desperate as to be focused only on its immediate existence. The country has reached a stage in its ...

Addis Ababa's renewed calls for sea access threaten an already fragile relationship with Eritrea, drawing anger from ...

Each time I think about negotiation, my mind returns to a parable about camels that I read some time ago in one of William Ury's books, "Getting to Yes with Yourself: How to Get What You Truly Want." ...

With that preposterous prophesy for a boy growing up in a house without electricity in a tiny Ethiopian village, she kissed him on his head and sent him on his way. “'You’re unique, my son,'” he ...

Ethiopia’s leader loves big projects. With a contentious megadam completed on the Nile, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed now plans Africa’s largest airport and a nuclear power plant. But the landlocked ...

The formal launch of Ethiopia’s Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam in September 2025 made news across the world. There was pomp and ceremony as Africa’s largest hydroelectric dam was officially ...

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's tenure reveals a political project that is not merely developmental but profoundly performative and epistemological. His emergence has done one thing remarkably noticed by ...