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Author: Hana Belay

The Sanetti Plateau in Ethiopia's Bale Mountains, photographed on December 23, 2017.

Stone Age hunters lived high in Ethiopia’s Bale Mountains more than 40,000 years ago, researchers found

August 8, 2019October 17, 2026Hana Belay
A train at Mojo station on Ethiopia's standard gauge railway, photographed on February 1, 2023.

Ethio-Djibouti Railway earned more than $20 million from freight and passengers in the first seven months of 2019

August 8, 2019October 17, 2026Hana Belay
The Sheraton Addis hotel in Addis Ababa, photographed on October 21, 2007.

Addis Ababa posted Africa’s highest average hotel room rate in the year to June 2019, STR data show

August 8, 2019October 17, 2026Hana Belay

Dr. Sisay Mengiste discusses the development of political parties in Ethiopia

August 8, 2019August 8, 2019Hana Belay

The on-going controversy over Supreme Court President Meaza Ashenafi’s comment

August 8, 2019August 8, 2019Hana Belay

Dr. Wodajeneh Meharene on leadership crisis

August 8, 2019August 9, 2019Hana Belay

Political analyst Ermias Legesse discusses PM Abiy Government’s growing weakness

August 8, 2019August 8, 2019Hana Belay

Wektawi Gudayoch (Ethiopian Current Affairs) on Mereja TV – 8 August 2019

August 8, 2019August 19, 2019Hana Belay

Tigray Region official responds to Supreme Court President Meaza Ashenafi

August 8, 2019August 8, 2019Hana Belay

Wektawi Gudayoch (Ethiopian Current Affairs) on Mereja TV – 5 August 2019

August 8, 2019August 19, 2019Hana Belay

Former TPLF Central Committee member talks about top state secrets in his possession

August 8, 2019August 8, 2019Hana Belay

Aklilu Wondafrash with Abebe Belew – Addis Dimts on Mereja TV

August 8, 2019August 8, 2019Hana Belay
Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 8 ET-AVJ, the aircraft later lost as Flight 302, takes off from Ben Gurion International Airport in Israel on February 8, 2019.

Kenyan families of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 victims sued Boeing, alleging a conspiracy with the FAA

August 8, 2019October 17, 2026Hana Belay
A street in Addis Ababa's Merkato market district, photographed on April 3, 2023.

Ethiopia’s inflation stayed in double digits in July 2019 as economists urged the gov’t to tame prices

August 8, 2019October 17, 2026Hana Belay
Coffee beans in Addis Ababa, December 2017

Ethiopia develops an ‘Ethiopian Coffee’ national brand as Chinese demand grows

August 7, 2019October 16, 2026Hana Belay
Road traffic in the town of Awash, Afar region, on the highway toward Djibouti, January 2014

African Development Bank funds first section of Adama-Awash expressway on the Ethiopia-Djibouti corridor

August 7, 2019October 16, 2026Hana Belay
A smartphone showing the Facebook login screen, May 2015

Facebook Live videos spread disinformation as Ethiopia’s political tensions rose, Global Voices found

August 7, 2019October 16, 2026Hana Belay
Holy Trinity Cathedral in Addis Ababa, November 2007

Nigussu Legesse, who worked to heal the Ethiopian Orthodox schism, returns home to lead CCRDA

August 7, 2019October 16, 2026Hana Belay
A Borana herder leads donkeys down into El Sod crater in southern Ethiopia, August 2011

In Ethiopia’s Borena, herders who measure wealth in cattle brace for another drought

August 7, 2019October 16, 2026Hana Belay
Bete Giyorgis, the Church of St. George, in Lalibela, November 2012

Rough Guides names Lalibela among its 100 best places on Earth

August 6, 2019October 16, 2026Hana Belay
Addis Ababa Stadium before a Saint George S.C. home game, Oct. 20, 2018

U.S. soccer player Shea Groom coaches in Addis Ababa and trains with Saint George

August 5, 2019October 16, 2026Hana Belay
A U.S. intelligence map of gold deposits in Ethiopia and Eritrea, dated 1946

Al Hilal opens a gold detector assembly plant in Addis Ababa as artisanal gold exports fall

August 5, 2019October 16, 2026Hana Belay
Cranes and boats at the Port of Djibouti, through which most of Ethiopia's foreign trade passes, September 2005

Ethiopia earned $2.67 billion from exports in 2018/19, 61 percent of its target

August 5, 2019October 16, 2026Hana Belay
A bajaj on Alula Street in Mekelle, Tigray, January 2018

Red Cross helps Ethiopians who returned from Eritrea start small businesses in Mekelle

August 5, 2019October 16, 2026Hana Belay
A main road in Butajira, Ethiopia, September 2022

British optometrist helps set up Ethiopia’s first low vision clinic in Butajira

August 5, 2019October 16, 2026Hana Belay
Traffic on Bole Road in Addis Ababa, November 2017

Ethiopia imported 135,457 vehicles in the 2018/19 fiscal year, transport ministry figures show

August 3, 2019October 16, 2026Hana Belay
An Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 777 freighter, ET-APS, at Brussels Airport, March 2019

Ethiopian Airlines offers to fly Tanzania’s flower and vegetable exports through Addis Ababa

August 3, 2019October 16, 2026Hana Belay
Ethiopian Jewish immigrants on their first day at an integration center in Ashkelon, Israel, 1984

Former Israeli Navy commando recalls Red Sea evacuations of Ethiopian Jews from Sudan

August 2, 2019October 16, 2026Hana Belay
An Ethiopian and Eritrean coffee ceremony, November 2022

Taste of Ethiopia festival shows a morning coffee ceremony in Colorado

August 2, 2019October 15, 2026Hana Belay
A mother with her baby receiving nutrition support in southern Ethiopia, August 2011

Displaced women in eastern Ethiopia push back on stigma over family planning

August 2, 2019October 15, 2026Hana Belay
Drawing water from a well in Ethiopia, March 2013

Ethiopia’s One WASH programme expands safe water and sanitation

August 2, 2019October 15, 2026Hana Belay
Trading activity at the Ethiopia Commodity Exchange, July 2011

Ethiopia’s Commodity Exchange trades over $1.2 billion in a year

August 2, 2019October 15, 2026Hana Belay
Ethiopian fashion at Houston's International Festival, April 2008

Direct Relief outreach builds trust in Houston’s Ethiopian community

August 2, 2019October 15, 2026Hana Belay
Children at a vaccinations clinic near Sululta, Ethiopia, May 2012

Ethiopia says HPV vaccine reached 96 percent of eligible girls after 2018 launch

August 1, 2019October 15, 2026Hana Belay
Hailu Mergia performing at the Perth Festival, February 2025

Hailu Mergia, Ethiopian jazz star who drove a D.C. cab, returns to the stage

August 1, 2019October 15, 2026Hana Belay
Hand washing in Turmi, southern Ethiopia, July 2014

Ethiopia joins the global drive to end cholera by 2030

August 1, 2019October 15, 2026Hana Belay
An Ethiopian Airlines De Havilland Canada Dash 8-400 turboprop, October 2011

Ethiopian Airlines takes delivery of its 25th Dash 8-400 from De Havilland Canada

July 31, 2019October 15, 2026Hana Belay
A stele in the main stelae field at Axum

Italy sends experts to stabilize a tilting Axum obelisk in Tigray

July 31, 2019October 15, 2026Hana Belay
Israeli President Ezer Weizman greets Ethiopian Jews, November 1993

Ethiopian Jews in Israel, once hailed for daring airlifts, still face discrimination

July 31, 2019October 15, 2026Hana Belay
The National Bank of Ethiopia in Addis Ababa in April 2008

Ethiopia opens its banking sector to diaspora and dual nationals

July 31, 2019October 15, 2026Hana Belay
Injera with a traditional platter of stews in Ethiopia

Temsalet Kitchen: the Addis Ababa restaurant training vulnerable women

July 30, 2019October 14, 2026Hana Belay
A farmer ploughing with cattle in southwestern Ethiopia

Ethiopia is embracing GMOs slowly and quietly

July 30, 2019October 14, 2026Hana Belay
A hospital compound in Addis Ababa

Ethiopia faces steep odds in managing childhood cancer

July 30, 2019October 14, 2026Hana Belay
Vernonia galamensis, the ironweed whose seed oil is the focus of the project

German and Ethiopian chemists team up to turn ironweed into green plastics

July 30, 2019October 14, 2026Hana Belay

Ethiopia’s 13-month calendar, coffee and Lucy: facts that surprise visitors

July 26, 2019October 14, 2026Hana Belay
Crowds at a Meskel festival celebration in Ethiopia

Wolkite University uses theatre to bridge ethnic divides among Ethiopian students

July 25, 2019October 14, 2026Hana Belay
Meaza Ashenafi in November 2018

Meaza Ashenafi, Ethiopia’s first female Supreme Court president, set out to rebuild trust in the courts

July 25, 2019October 14, 2026Hana Belay
Gelada baboons in Ethiopia's Simien Mountains

Ethiopia’s wildlife and ancient monuments: a reference guide for travellers

July 24, 2019October 14, 2026Hana Belay
The Gheralta Mountains in Tigray, northern Ethiopia

Trekking routes link the hidden rock-hewn churches of Tigray’s Gheralta Mountains

July 24, 2019October 13, 2026Hana Belay
Ethio Telecom headquarters in Addis Ababa, September 2025

Ethio Telecom earns 36.3 billion birr in 2018/19 as subscribers reach 43.6 million

July 24, 2019October 13, 2026Hana Belay
The Cleveland Cultural Gardens, August 2015

A mosaic of 5,000 years of Ethiopian history anchors the first African country garden in Cleveland’s Cultural Gardens

July 24, 2019October 13, 2026Hana Belay
The National Bank of Ethiopia in Addis Ababa in April 2008

Ethiopia plans cashless payments in state institutions and online business registration to cut red tape

July 23, 2019October 13, 2026Hana Belay
Health extension workers at a government health post in Ethiopia register women and their families for services, April 2012

World Bank review finds Ethiopia’s community-based nutrition project reached 55.8 million people

July 23, 2019October 13, 2026Hana Belay
Melaku Belay’s Fendika group performing in Addis Ababa, December 2017

Addis Ababa artists build their own galleries and collectives as high taxes and scarce materials hold the art scene back

July 23, 2019October 13, 2026Hana Belay
A vegetable seller in Ankober, Amhara region, June 2014

WFP fresh food voucher pilot in Amhara’s Habru district could not show impact because transfers arrived irregularly

July 22, 2019October 13, 2026Hana Belay
New buildings and construction cranes on the Addis Ababa skyline, January 2015

Getachew T. Alemu argues Ethiopia cannot quickly swap public investment for private capital

July 22, 2019October 13, 2026Hana Belay
Lakes Ziway, Langano, Abijata and Shala on the floor of Ethiopia’s Central Rift Valley, from Sentinel-2 satellite data of April 2020

Ethiopia’s Rift Valley fights excess fluoride in drinking water with filters made from charred bones

July 22, 2019October 13, 2026Hana Belay
The Ethiopian Skylight Hotel in Addis Ababa, December 2025

Ethiopian Airlines opens the 373-room Ethiopian Skylight Hotel near Bole Airport

July 22, 2019October 13, 2026Hana Belay
The front of a 1998 Ethiopian one-birr banknote

Hijra Bank opens share sale to become one of Ethiopia’s first interest-free banks

July 21, 2019October 13, 2026Hana Belay
Priests carry tabots, wrapped in cloth, during Timkat at Jan Meda in Addis Ababa, January 2015

British Museum has kept 11 sacred Ethiopian tabots from Maqdala in storage, never displayed, for 146 years

July 21, 2019October 13, 2026Hana Belay

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