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Ethiopia

  • Monday, 29 July, 2024
    Ethiopia floats currency as it seeks to secure IMF deal

    Foreign exchange reform will remove market distortions but some analysts fear it will stoke inflation

    A vendor counts out Ethiopian birr banknotes at the Shola market in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
  • Thursday, 11 July, 2024
    The Art Market
    Paris defies large fall in global auction sales

    Ethiopian gallery shuts London space; new fair offers art under £600; optimism in Tokyo

  • Thursday, 15 February, 2024
    The Art Market
    Arianna Huffington sells Françoise Gilot painting

    Tesfaye Urgessa is first Ethiopian pavilion artist for Venice; gallerist bucks trend in China; George Condo makes prints for Dia

  • Tuesday, 13 February, 2024
    ReviewTheatre
    Just for One Day, Old Vic — Live Aid musical hits the stage with fresh look at epic concert

    The songs from the 1985 gig put together by Bob Geldof are moving, but the script is often clunky

    A bearded man in a dull golden suit sings in to a mic and his face is shown nearby blown up on a screen
  • Monday, 5 February, 2024
    Ethiopia food crisis threatens ‘humanitarian catastrophe’

    UK development minister says 3mn people face acute food shortage because of drought and civil war

    A crowd of people receiving food
  • Tuesday, 23 January, 2024
    News in-depthArtificial intelligence
    Audio deepfakes emerge as weapon of choice in election disinformation

    Faked Joe Biden robocall underlines prevalence of cheap AI tools being used to create clips aimed at swaying voters

    Town moderator Tom Tillotson votes  in the primary election in Dixville Notch, New Hampshire
  • Thursday, 11 January, 2024
    Somaliland
    Somalia calls on Ethiopia to tear up deal with breakaway Somaliland

    The agreement that would give Addis Ababa port access is a boost for the autonomous territory in its quest for statehood

    Students wave a Somali flag during a demonstration in support of Somalia’s government
  • Wednesday, 27 December, 2023
    Sovereign bonds
    Ethiopia defaults on sovereign debt after deadline expires on $33mn payment

    Fitch downgrade further formalises third default for an African country in as many years

    People outside in Mekele in the Tigray region of Ethiopia
  • Wednesday, 15 November, 2023
    Ethiopia’s only foreign-owned finance group withdraws citing FX constraints

    Departure of Ethio Lease is a blow to Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s push to attract investors

    Commuters and pedestrians use a street crossing in Addis Ababa
  • Wednesday, 4 October, 2023
    The Big Read
    Ethiopia’s plan to rebuild in the wake of a ‘brutal’ war

    After a peace deal ended the conflict in Tigray, the country is on the slow road to recovery. But lingering animosity threatens progress

    Abiy Ahmed, Getachew Reda, foreground. Background: People react as captive Ethiopian soldiers walk towards Mekele Rehabilitation Center in Mekele, the capital of Tigray region, Ethiopia, on July 2, 2021.
  • Monday, 28 August, 2023
    ‘God wants us away from our enemies’: bitter legacy of war splits Ethiopian church

    Breakaway bishops form separate Tigray denomination in schism that risks inflaming tensions in wake of brutal conflict

    Ethiopian worshippers celebrate the Orthodox Easter at a church in the city of Lalibela
  • Thursday, 24 August, 2023
    Emerging markets
    Brics leaders invite 6 nations including Saudis and Iran to join bloc

    South African president Cyril Ramaphosa says countries will be admitted next year in ‘first phase of expansion process’

    South African president Cyril Ramaphosa speaks at the Brics summit in Johannesburg
  • Monday, 21 August, 2023
    Saudi Arabia
    Saudi forces accused of killing hundreds of Ethiopian migrants

    Human rights group says border guards at frontier with Yemen opened fire on unarmed civilians

    Ethiopian Tigray migrants stand in lines
  • Sunday, 20 August, 2023
    Interview
    Ethiopia seeks help to find $20bn for post-conflict reconstruction

    Finance minister Ahmed Shide calls on international institutions and foreign investors to aid recovery from civil war

    A farming family in Tigray, Ethiopia
  • Saturday, 1 April, 2023
    ObituaryEmahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou
    Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou, musician and nun, 1923-2023

    Her compositions managed to evoke Chopin, the Mississippi Delta blues and the sounds of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church

  • Wednesday, 18 January, 2023
    Currencies
    It’s the currency, stupid

    Breaking the debt doom loop

  • Sunday, 15 January, 2023
    Tigray
    War in Tigray may have killed 600,000 people, peace mediator says

    Conflict came to an end after two years of fighting and was marked by waves of violence against civilians

    Ethiopian National Defence Forces soldiers shout slogans after finishing their training in the field of Dabat
  • Thursday, 12 January, 2023
    InterviewPhotography
    Artist Aïda Muluneh: ‘We were at the mercy of foreign photographers’

    Her bright, surreal works and her new photo-festival reclaim African agency over depictions of the continent

    A line of women with white faces, blue turbans and red hands
  • Thursday, 3 November, 2022
    Deal to end Ethiopian civil war welcomed by US and EU

    Government and Tigray forces congratulated on ‘taking much-needed steps forward towards peace’

    Ethiopian government representative Redwan Hussien, second left, and Tigray delegate Getachew Reda, right, at the deal-signing ceremony in Pretoria, South Africa, on Wednesday
  • Sunday, 11 September, 2022
    Masters in Management
    How a business masters took a refugee back to his roots

    Yonas Abeje’s degree gave him the skills to contribute to Ethiopia’s future

    A man leaning on the railings of his balcony, looking over a city skyline
  • Thursday, 25 August, 2022
    Ethiopia’s ceasefire ends as fighting erupts in north

    Resumption of conflict saps hopes for peaceful resolution of civil war that began nearly two years ago

    A damaged tank abandoned on a road near Humera, Ethiopia
  • Sunday, 24 July, 2022
    Russian politics
    Sergei Lavrov on Africa tour to counter accusation Russia is ‘exporting hunger’

    Russian foreign minister to visit Ethiopia, Uganda and the Republic of the Congo after Egypt on Sunday

    Sergei Lavrov and Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in Cairo
  • Monday, 20 June, 2022
    News in-depth
    After the war ends, can Ethiopia’s economic ‘miracle’ get back on track?

    Until the conflict, Africa’s second-most populous country had been regarded as one of its most promising economies

    Women sell vegetables in a street in the town of Bonga, 100 kms southwest of the city of Jimma, Ethiopia, on August 17 2021
  • Friday, 10 June, 2022
    Climate change
    War and climate shocks put 49mn people at risk of famine this year

    Food insecurity to worsen in 46 countries as ‘hunger hotspots’ exacerbated by conflict and extreme weather

    Conflict and organised violence were the main sources of food insecurity in Africa and the Middle East
  • Tuesday, 17 May, 2022
    Ethiopia atrocities cast long shadow as city of Lalibela prays for peace

    Settlement talks are on the horizon after a year-long war devastates communities across the country

    Ethiopian Orthodox priests chant during a celebration on the eve of the Orthodox Easter at the Bete Medihanealem church in the city of Lalibela
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