The last of Ethiopia's Soviet-era Lada cars Leaning under the hood, Tesfahun Assefa checks the oil and the radiator. (Copyright: Marco Simoncelli / AFP To go with AFP story by Dylan GAMBA) Tesfahun, a ...

The government has barred the Ethiopian Human Rights Council (EHRCO) and the Ethiopian Human Rights Defenders Center (EHRDC), ...

Parliament’s ratification this week of the keenly anticipated banking business proclamation marks a seminal moment for ...

The just-released "ultimate remix" of Band Aid's celebrity charity single still makes Africa a caricature of despair for ...

Band Aid released the “ultimate remix” of “Do They Know It’s Christmas?,” the rock charity single from 40 years ago that, in ...

The 1955 Constitution introduced elections to the lower chamber. The Ethiopian Parliament Building was the meeting place of the imperial parliament. The last elections took place in 1973. The ...

The current constitution empowers the nations, nationalities, and peoples of Ethiopia with autonomy, ensuring that legal frameworks do not support oppression. While the Derg regime claimed to be a ...

Then followed the inevitable downfall of the Derg, replaced by EPRDF. May 28, 1991, is considered a watershed in the history of Ethiopia. After a couple of years, focus was given to preparing a ...

He highlighted the fact that it was built under Ethiopia’s Derg military regime, which was overthrown in 1991 after ruling the country for nearly two decades (archived here). “Unfortunately ...