A Call to the Regiments! Last week, readers may remember, we looked at the question of Ethiopian royal drums. We saw that way back, in the great days of Gondar, the Palace possessed two silver drums, ...

Silencing the gun although far from realization has become the catchphrase echoed in Africa for quite a while now. This landmark motto has also been among the leading projects of the African Union.

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Leaders of a militia in Ethiopia's Amhara region accused the administration in neighbouring Tigray of "beating a war drum" over plans to return hundreds of thousands of Tigrayans ...

Ethiopian Orthodox Christians have been celebrating the festival of Timket, or Epiphany, which commemorates the baptism of Jesus in the River Jordan. In the town of Batu, on the shores of Lake Dambal ...

Members of the Amhara militia ride in the back of a pick up truck, in Mai Kadra, Ethiopia, on November 21, 2020. Amharas and Tigrayans were uneasy neighbours before the current fighting. Photo by ...