Abel Wabela. Drawing by Melody Sundberg. Global Voices Online. In April 2014, nine bloggers and journalists were arrested in Ethiopia. Several of these men and women had worked with Zone9, a collective blog that covered social and political issues in Ethiopia and...
By: Will Davison, the Chrisitan Science Monitor Among the young Ethiopian entrepreneurs idly sipping coffee near their shops in Addis Ababa, Tariku Temesgen stands out as the joker. Wearing scarlet dungarees and aviator shades, he draws laughter by describing his...
BBC. Ethiopia\’s ruling party, the EPRDF, and its allies have won every single parliamentary seat in May\’s elections, according to official results. This includes the one seat held by an...
Tadias Magazine: The story of Berhane is one that would make a great inspiring novel. She was born to a poor rural farming family in Holeta town, some 50 miles from Addis Ababa. In 1968, polio stricken by age two, she was left along a dusty roadside by her father in...
VOA News, by Marthe van der Wolf As countries observe World Day Against Child Labor on June 12, many children in developing countries below the age of 18 have to work to help their families or just to take care of themselves. In Ethiopia many children are helping...
