Electric vehicles have taken off in Ethiopia. Key to the shift: a world-first ban on importing fossil fuel-powered vehicles. Shashe Asemare handles the large steering wheel with ease, navigating the ...

The vote comes at a critical moment for the country, which faces fears of renewed conflict in the Tigray region and tensions with Eritrea over access to the Red Sea. By Matthew Mpoke Bigg Reporting ...

Ethiopians have begun voting in parliamentary and regional elections, with Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s party projected to win by a landslide, despite significant unrest in much of the country. More ...

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia – Ethiopians vote on Monday in a general election to choose members of parliament, who will in turn select the next prime minister. The National Election Board of Ethiopia (NEBE) ...

When Abiy Ahmed became Ethiopia’s prime minister in 2018, he offered a clean slate for Africa’s oldest uncolonized nation, which had been suffocated by decades of strict state control. His predecessor ...

Ethiopia will hold its seventh national election on June 1, 2026. The vote takes place as Gulf states compete for influence in the region and the rivalry between Ethiopia and Egypt over the Nile ...

A few months after coming to power in April 2018, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed signed a peace deal to end a decades-long insurgency in the country’s Oromia region. The same summer, he struck a ...

A stunning fossil discovery in Ethiopia shows that early Homo and a previously unknown Australopithecus species lived together around 2.6 to 2.8 million years ago. The find overturns the classic ...

Once envisioned as a bridge between Java and JavaScript, the Detroit project never got off the ground. Now, there are efforts at reviving it, adding a Python engine to the mix. Intended to enable ...

Some places feel old enough to have seen the first dawn. Ethiopia is one of them. The air carries the weight of centuries, and the land moves at its own pace, unbothered by our impatience, unmoved by ...

Johannesburg — Africa's largest hydroelectric dam, the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), on the Blue Nile is scheduled to open Tuesday to major fanfare in Ethiopia. The $5 billion dam project ...

In the deserts of Ethiopia, scientists uncovered fossils showing that early members of our genus Homo lived side by side with a newly identified species of Australopithecus nearly three million years ...