When Wang Yijun put Ethiopia’s most expensive real estate project on the market, he experienced a strange phenomenon. People preferred the lowest floors over those with panoramic city views. “Power ...

Bulldozers have knocked much of the Piassa area of Addis Ababa, erasing centuries of history that Ethiopians built there, starting with Menelik II in the late 1800s. It is now nearly unrecognisable.

Recent media reports have been profusely asserting that the performance of the organs of the city administration have been either smeared with numerous unhealthy records or were entangled in ...

The hearse bearing the late leader’s journey embarked on a slow five hour seven kilometre journey from the airport to the presidential palace, as mourners flocked to the streets. “Three days after the ...

Nothing to disclose. The views expressed in the piece are all Ezana's and do not represent their employer's official position. Over the last two decades, Addis Ababa has witnessed rapid socio-economic ...

It is very rare now in Uganda to see an Italian made vehicle traversing the roads unless it is a new model but not those Fiat cars that were mostly used by thieves and smugglers during Idi Amin's ...

A train hasn’t left Addis Ababa for six years. But this major new train line is expected to open between Addis Ababa and the port of Djibouti in 2016. This will be the first train line that forms a ...