Africa Ethiopia Cultural artefacts that were looted during the 1868 Battle of Magdala have been returned to the Ethiopian Embassy in London
Africa Ethiopia Ethio Telecom has launched commercial 5G services in the country; serving over 70 million subscribers, it will initially offer 5G through 145 sites located in the capital
Africa Ethiopia An agreement for a $730 million corridor project to improve the key route between Addis Ababa and Djibouti has been signed between the government of Ethiopia and the World Bank
Africa Ethiopia Over four million Ethiopians are currently internally displaced, according to the UN Migration Agency, largely due to conflict and drought
Africa Ethiopia UN World Food Programme is slowly resuming the delivery of food aid to Ethiopia, a suspension that affected 20 million people, or one sixth of the population, plus 800.000 refugees
Africa Ethiopia The International Monetary Fund said the $2bn loan for Ethiopia will require clear commitments from development partners and financing guarantees from G20 Common Framework creditors
Africa Ethiopia The last of the 17 historic venues known as Azmari Bets, the Ethiopian cabaret club Fendika, has been saved from demolition; Azmari, itinerant poet-musicians from rural Ethiopia, improvise to the sound of the masinqo, a single-string violin
Africa Ethiopia The US humanitarian agency told AP last week it is horrified by conditions in Ethiopia, where hundreds of hunger deaths have been reported recently after the U.S. and the UN paused food aid for one-sixth of the country’s population over massive aid theft
Africa Ethiopia Children born to Eritrean refugees in Ethiopia are denied birth certificates: according to BBC, the Ethiopian refugee authorities stopped the service about 18 months ago, during the war in Tigray
Africa Ethiopia An increase in newborn mortality rates has been recorded in the Seharti Samre district, located 40 km from Macallè, the capital of Tigray
Africa Ethiopia Ancient religious manuscripts are in danger of disappearing with time, but at the Hamere Berhan Institute in Addis Ababa, priests and lay faithful have been working tirelessly for months replicating precious secular books by hand on parchment
Africa Ethiopia The conservation and enhancement of the archaeological site of Axum, in the Tigray regional state, will be supported with a contribution of €2 million by the Italian government
Africa Ethiopia Over 7 billion saplings are ready to be planted in the coming rainy season, as part of the Green Legacy Programme that has resulted in the planting of 25 billion saplings over the past four years