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 ...

Want more? Subscribe to our newsletter to get our investigations delivered straight to your inbox. A controversial resettlement program in Ethiopia is the latest battleground in the global race to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This post is part of our special coverage Global Development 2011. This post was commissioned as part of a Pulitzer Center/Global Voices Online series on Food Insecurity. These reports draw on ...

Addis Abeba — This week marks the 50th anniversary of the radical land reform encapsulated by the "Proclamation to Provide for the Public Ownership of Rural Lands." The proclamation was profound and ...

This week, planners, policymakers and urban practitioners from across the world are gathering in Kuala Lumpur for World Urban Forum 9. This story is part of Next City’s coverage of the Forum. For more ...