VOGUE, By AKILI KING Every week, Vogue will be spotlighting the medical workers, teachers, and Good Samaritans who are giving back to those in need during the coronavirus crisis. “We loved the idea of doing something for the city, while showcasing great Ethiopian talent to a global audience,” said Addis Ababa-born filmmaker, Edelawit Hussien, who is the co-founder […]
By Rita Pankhurst “Highly placed Ethiopian women, who combined worldliness, politics and religion are seen again and again in Ethiopian history. Rita Pankhurst recalls how women have been as important and influential as any man.” Lucy, alias Dinknesh – literally “you are lovely” – is the first woman in Ethiopian history, indeed in the history […]
The Historie of the World. Commonly called, THE NATURALL HISTORIE OF C. PLINIUS SECUNDUS. Translated into English by PHILEMON HOLLAND Doctor in Physic. 1601 Withen the inner compasse and hollow of Affricke toward the South, and above the Gætulians, where the desarts come betweene, the first people that inhabite those parts, bee the Libij Ægyptij, […]
After visiting Addis Ababa, it was interesting to see how blockchain is improving the supply chain. Ethiopia has one of the fastest-growing economies in the world and is Africa’s second most populous country. Its main exports are coffee, livestock, and flowers. With consumers demanding more detailed product information, new technology can help transform operations and […]
UNECA Windhoek, Namibia 18 November 2019 (ECA, MFMR) –“The blue economy can be a site of economic production, which through its value chain process, can link small, medium and big production firms and thereby promote the alleviation of poverty, reducing inequality and ensuring better living standards for the people of our region”. The statement was made today […]
Face 2 Face Africa, by MILDRED EUROPA TAYLOR Born on the small mountain town of Boda, Ethiopia on this day in 1936, Tsegaye Gebre-Medhin was one of his country’s most important literary figures and the best known. Considered by many to be Ethiopia’s greatest playwright, Tsegaye had earned a degree in 1959 from the Blackstone […]
In Book 3, chapters 16–26, Herodotus narrates the fate of three military expeditions planned by Cambyses. One never gets off the ground, another vanishes in the desert sands, but the third, against the Macrobioi Ethiopians living at the southern edges of the earth, has attained fame despite being no less a failure. Its fame is […]
My modern met, By Jessica Stewart on April 1, 2019 Macedonian-Australian photographer Biljana Jurukovski has been fascinated by different cultures since childhood. For the past five years, she has focused her craft on taking moving portraits of different cultures around the world. In particular, her Tribal Muse series hones in on the beauty of the Surma tribe—and more specifically the Suri. […]
The Ethiopian Herald, By Desta Gebrehiwot Experts warn Egypt’s actions only harm itself as Ethiopia prepares to begin dam filling Cairo’s recent move to take the issue of Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam(GERD) to the UN Security Council is part of Egypt’s long-held slippery positions to give political fig leaf to a purely technical issue and […]
Modern War institute at West Point By Cameron Evers In June, an attempted coup in Ethiopia centered principally in the northern region of Amhara temporarily threw the country into turmoil—and left the army’s chief of staff dead. Against that backdrop, there is credible concern about the risk of further instability surrounding the upcoming 2020 general elections. Ethiopia’s reformist prime […]
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