Ethiopia is set to keep supporting its currency after spending $1.35 billion buying birr this year, an amount that equates to roughly a quarter of its known central bank reserves. The National Bank of ...

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If you see a forest in Ethiopia, you know there is very likely to be a church in the middle, says Alemayehu Wassie. Wassie, a forest ecologist, has spent the past decade on a mission: preserving, ...

Ethiopians dig out of a landslide on March 13 caused by days of torrential rains. (Yaekob Geja / AFP via Getty Images) There was a time when Ethiopia was synonymous with destitution. Yet the East ...

Five years after the massacre that killed two members of her family, 71-year-old Abeba Gebregeziaber is convinced that another horrific war is looming. She lives in the ancient city of Axum, in the ...