GEREZAT arrives in Meskerem, the Ethiopian season many people treat as a time of renewal after the rains ease and the city feels open again. Tewnet described the listing as fine art exploring cultural ...

That geography matters for landlocked Ethiopia because the Djibouti corridor still moves the overwhelming share of the country’s overseas cargo. The Africa Center wrote that Ethiopia’s population of ...

ACLED’s September 24 and 25 conflict alerts map the same Amhara corridor with named woredas rather than vague “north” language. Jalale Getachew Birru wrote that fighting had spread across Wag Hemra ...

Reuters said Iran-aligned militants who seized swathes of the Yemeni coast and captured Perim Island in the Bab el-Mandeb strait this month have vowed to target vessels linked to Saudi Arabia because ...

BBC reporting on the same ceremony said Abiy claimed the pipeline would cut the time needed to move fuel from Djibouti’s port to Addis Ababa from five days to one. The first phase is expected to carry ...

Heavy clashes were reported in North Wollo Zone on Thursday, including around Lalibela, the UNESCO World Heritage district that holds Ethiopia’s rock-hewn churches. AFP said the army now claims it has ...

For a landlocked importer that still depends on Djibouti for nearly all seaborne trade, Cape diversion freight is not an abstract shipping story. Coffee, pulses, oilseeds, fertiliser, fuel, medicines, ...

Indris Awel, who has lived integrated with the local community in Harbu for about six years, told DW Amharic it had been six months since his family received food relief from the state or charities.

In May 2019 local reporting said Addis Ababa’s Baladera Council expressed opposition to Mayor Takele Uma’s plan to demolish structures in an affected neighborhood. Resident and council pushback ...

Seven armed groups form Alliance for Survival against Abiy Ahmed’s regime. Fano and TPLF share the same table.

Ships that charter or buy fixed-premium and offshore cover through UK P&I will face a standing exclusion for war risks in those waters unless they arrange separate war-risk or kidnap-and-ransom ...

The 3 percent war-risk figure is not proof that the Bab el-Mandeb route has become safe. Two marine underwriters quoted in the same reporting say current war-risk pricing rests on a thin sample of ...