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    • Wednesday, 15 November, 2023
      Ethiopia’s only foreign-owned finance group withdraws citing FX constraints

      Departure of Ethio Lease is a blow to Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s push to attract investors

      Commuters and pedestrians use a street crossing in Addis Ababa
    • Wednesday, 4 October, 2023
      The Big Read
      Ethiopia’s plan to rebuild in the wake of a ‘brutal’ war

      After a peace deal ended the conflict in Tigray, the country is on the slow road to recovery. But lingering animosity threatens progress

      Abiy Ahmed, Getachew Reda, foreground. Background: People react as captive Ethiopian soldiers walk towards Mekele Rehabilitation Center in Mekele, the capital of Tigray region, Ethiopia, on July 2, 2021.
    • Monday, 28 August, 2023
      ‘God wants us away from our enemies’: bitter legacy of war splits Ethiopian church

      Breakaway bishops form separate Tigray denomination in schism that risks inflaming tensions in wake of brutal conflict

      Ethiopian worshippers celebrate the Orthodox Easter at a church in the city of Lalibela
    • Thursday, 24 August, 2023
      Emerging markets
      Brics leaders invite 6 nations including Saudis and Iran to join bloc

      South African president Cyril Ramaphosa says countries will be admitted next year in ‘first phase of expansion process’

      South African president Cyril Ramaphosa speaks at the Brics summit in Johannesburg
    • Monday, 21 August, 2023
      Saudi Arabia
      Saudi forces accused of killing hundreds of Ethiopian migrants

      Human rights group says border guards at frontier with Yemen opened fire on unarmed civilians

      Ethiopian Tigray migrants stand in lines
    • Sunday, 20 August, 2023
      Interview
      Ethiopia seeks help to find $20bn for post-conflict reconstruction

      Finance minister Ahmed Shide calls on international institutions and foreign investors to aid recovery from civil war

      A farming family in Tigray, Ethiopia
    • Saturday, 1 April, 2023
      ObituaryEmahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou
      Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou, musician and nun, 1923-2023

      Her compositions managed to evoke Chopin, the Mississippi Delta blues and the sounds of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church

    • Wednesday, 18 January, 2023
      Currencies
      It’s the currency, stupid

      Breaking the debt doom loop

    • Sunday, 15 January, 2023
      Tigray
      War in Tigray may have killed 600,000 people, peace mediator says

      Conflict came to an end after two years of fighting and was marked by waves of violence against civilians

      Ethiopian National Defence Forces soldiers shout slogans after finishing their training in the field of Dabat
    • Thursday, 12 January, 2023
      InterviewPhotography
      Artist Aïda Muluneh: ‘We were at the mercy of foreign photographers’

      Her bright, surreal works and her new photo-festival reclaim African agency over depictions of the continent

      A line of women with white faces, blue turbans and red hands
    • Thursday, 3 November, 2022
      Deal to end Ethiopian civil war welcomed by US and EU

      Government and Tigray forces congratulated on ‘taking much-needed steps forward towards peace’

      Ethiopian government representative Redwan Hussien, second left, and Tigray delegate Getachew Reda, right, at the deal-signing ceremony in Pretoria, South Africa, on Wednesday
    • Sunday, 11 September, 2022
      Masters in Management
      How a business masters took a refugee back to his roots

      Yonas Abeje’s degree gave him the skills to contribute to Ethiopia’s future

      A man leaning on the railings of his balcony, looking over a city skyline
    • Thursday, 25 August, 2022
      Ethiopia’s ceasefire ends as fighting erupts in north

      Resumption of conflict saps hopes for peaceful resolution of civil war that began nearly two years ago

      A damaged tank abandoned on a road near Humera, Ethiopia
    • Sunday, 24 July, 2022
      Russian politics
      Sergei Lavrov on Africa tour to counter accusation Russia is ‘exporting hunger’

      Russian foreign minister to visit Ethiopia, Uganda and the Republic of the Congo after Egypt on Sunday

      Sergei Lavrov and Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in Cairo
    • Monday, 20 June, 2022
      News in-depth
      After the war ends, can Ethiopia’s economic ‘miracle’ get back on track?

      Until the conflict, Africa’s second-most populous country had been regarded as one of its most promising economies

      Women sell vegetables in a street in the town of Bonga, 100 kms southwest of the city of Jimma, Ethiopia, on August 17 2021
    • Friday, 10 June, 2022
      Climate change
      War and climate shocks put 49mn people at risk of famine this year

      Food insecurity to worsen in 46 countries as ‘hunger hotspots’ exacerbated by conflict and extreme weather

      Conflict and organised violence were the main sources of food insecurity in Africa and the Middle East
    • Tuesday, 17 May, 2022
      Ethiopia atrocities cast long shadow as city of Lalibela prays for peace

      Settlement talks are on the horizon after a year-long war devastates communities across the country

      Ethiopian Orthodox priests chant during a celebration on the eve of the Orthodox Easter at the Bete Medihanealem church in the city of Lalibela
    • Tuesday, 3 May, 2022
      Africa
      Horn of Africa ravaged by worst drought in four decades

      Up to 20mn people could go hungry as delayed rains exacerbate fallout from war in Ukraine

      People stand near the carcasses of dead animals in Gabia camp for Internally Displaced People near Gode, Ethiopia
    • Wednesday, 13 April, 2022
      Special ReportFT Health: Future of Antibiotics
      Drug pollution in rivers raises risks of antibiotic resistance

      Study finds lower middle income countries in South Asia and Latin America have highest levels of pollutants

      A family on a river in Bangladesh
    • Thursday, 24 March, 2022
      Ethiopia’s government declares ‘unilateral truce’ in Tigray conflict

      Food aid go-ahead raises hopes for start of peace talks in 16-month war with region

    • Sunday, 27 February, 2022
      Ethiopia launches fund to lure billions of dollars in foreign investment

      Addis Ababa seeks to open up state-dominated economy as it tries to recover economic momentum

      Ethiopian Airlines plane at Bole international airport in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in February 2022
    • Sunday, 20 February, 2022
      African economy
      Ethiopia’s Blue Nile mega-dam starts generating electricity

      Abiy Ahmed moves to assure Egypt and Sudan that water flows downstream will not be affected

      Workers at the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam
    • Wednesday, 12 January, 2022
      News in-depth
      Ethiopia’s offer of talks signals breakthrough in Tigrayan conflict

      Release of prisoners after string of military victories seen as sign of tentative softening by Addis Ababa

      Amhara militia men walk among a crowd of pilgrims in the northern Amhara region of Ethiopia earlier this month
    • Tuesday, 21 December, 2021
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      Ethiopia is a tragedy for the whole of Africa

      War in Tigray unleashed old hatreds and brought low a growth model

      Amhara Fano militia fighters walk in the ransacked terminal at the Lalibela airport in Lalibela, on December 7
    • Monday, 8 November, 2021
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      Ethiopia risks becoming a new Yugoslavia

      Age-old issues over ethnic identity and autonomy must be settled

      People hold candles and Ethiopian flags during a memorial service for the victims of the Tigray conflict organised by the city administration, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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