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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Ethiopia’s federal government says it lost control of some districts and towns to militia fighters in the country’s Amhara region during the latest conflict emerging in Africa’s ...

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 ...

In Meket – a district in Ethiopia’s Amhara National Regional State (ANRS) – efforts are underway to restore what experts say is one of the more severely deforested and degraded regions in the country.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Almost 50 percent of the Ethiopian highlands are eroded, with declining productivity costing Ethiopia 2 percent to 3 percent of its annual agricultural GDP. An innovative approach to restoring ...