Moving to Ethiopia marks the beginning of an exciting new chapter, and our first impressions of Addis Ababa have already ...

Imitation as a Strategy . Walk a hundred meters down any busy street in Addis Ababa and you can see the city thinking out loud. Five coffee shops in a row, three small restaurants ...

The collaboration between Kuala Lumpur and Addis Ababa is more than just a formal agreement; it represents a strategic alliance aimed at tackling significant urban challenges. The two cities have ...

Ethiopia’s capital city is undergoing a transformation. Addis Ababa is being redeveloped as part of Ethiopia’s broader economic ambitions. Mega road projects, ambitious housing developments and ...

Fikir Getaneh Haile has previously received funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. A spate of demolitions radically transformed one of the oldest parts of the Ethiopian ...

The historic neighbourhood of Piassa, at the old heart of Addis Ababa, is being taken apart. Workmen are uprooting pipes, felling lampposts and chiselling at façades. One building is being dismantled ...

As an Ethiopian working as a maid in Dubai, life was far from easy for Yemisrach. But when the coronavirus pandemic struck, forcing her to return home and take up sex work, things got a whole lot ...

Ethiopia has successfully won the bid to host the United Nations' COP32 climate summit in 2027, overtaking Nigeria's proposal. The announcement was made during COP30 in Brazil, where Ethiopia received ...