A controversial resettlement program in Ethiopia is the latest battleground in the global race to secure prized farmland and water. Sign up for our free newsletter. Anchor introduction: And now a ...

Reports are coming from Ethiopia that up to 140 Oromo protestors have been killed by security forces during protests over the expansion of the capital city, Addis Ababa, onto farmland. The underlying ...

Abraham Tekelgne’s family couldn’t have been happier when a socialist government swept to power, seized the country’s private farmland and allotted it to rural peasants. Tekelgne’s father got 5 acres, ...

With the coming of industrial-size farms in Ethiopia, local people, villagers and pastoralists (deemed irrelevant to the Government’s, economically-driven development plans) are being threatened, and ...

Ethiopia promises to meet its Millennium Goal objectives of creating a middle class and providing education and health care for its indigenous tribes. India promises to reduce its green house gas ...

Rastafarian priest Ras Moya attends festivities in Shashemene, Ethiopia to mark the 46th anniversary of Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie's visit to Jamaica in 1966. After Selassie's visit, Jamaican ...

Ethiopia’s Afar and Oromia regions have been hit by several earthquakes and tremors since the beginning of 2025. The ...

What’s special about 20th-century archaeology,” he said, “is that people began to understand the importance of preserving the old—allowing visitors to see different periods of time instead of forcing ...

Singapore will open an embassy in Addis Ababa by 2027 - its first in East Africa - to boost ties and trade between Southeast ...

BAKO, Ethiopia — In recent months, the Ethiopian government began marketing abroad one of the hottest commodities in an increasingly crowded and hungry world: farmland. “Why Attractive?” reads one ...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia – Ethiopia has always held me in thrall. It is a cradle of prehistoric humankind. It embraced Christianity long before the missionaries arrived. Its people carved subterranean ...

A controversial resettlement program in Ethiopia is the latest battleground in the global race to secure prized farmland and water. Correspondent Cassandra Herrman reports as part of the Food for 9 ...