Women work in a field in Oromia, Ethiopia. The region is one of the country’s most important food producers.
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Oromia is a cultural, economic and political powerhouse. It significantly shapes Ethiopia’s identity and trajectory.
Hachalu Hundessa’s songs gave a soundtrack to the Oromo resistance.
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Through his poetically eloquent protest songs, the young singer-songwriter came to represent the Oromo struggle.
A high priest holds a cross during the celebrations of the Ethiopian Orthodox holiday of Meskel in Addis Ababa in September 2023.
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News coverage of Ethiopia’s ethnic conflicts has overshadowed the growing tensions and polarisation between religious communities.
New apartments blocks in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
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Ethiopia’s mass housing project has built and transferred half-a-million houses in two decades – but it’s damaging the social fabric of communities.
Delegates at an African Union summit in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, in 2022.
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Member states need to arrive at binding, transparent and enforceable priorities to see progress.
Kampala is one of the three Eastern African cities that transformed with little historical precedence.
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East Africa is one of the fastest urbanising regions in the world, but it’s still in the early phases. There’s a big opportunity to get the region’s cities right.
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Local realities shape the transport system, making it less directly applicable as a model elsewhere.
Addis Ababa.
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Addis may be shaping up to look like the modern city that the government wants, but it is yet to meet the needs of most residents.
World Health Organisation Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus.
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Humanitarians are stuck in a dilemma: challenging practices that cause suffering could risk access to the vulnerable people they serve.
Garment factory at the Hawassa Industrial Park in Hawassa, southern Ethiopia.
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The new conflict in Ethiopia’s Tigray region could be the tipping point for foreign investors in the garment industry.
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia’s capital. Plans are underway to give the city a facelift.
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Abiy Ahmed has a vision to upgrade Ethiopia’s capital city but his ambitious megaprojects do not take the majority of Addis Ababa’s residents into account
A man pulls a cart through the early morning smog in Nairobi.
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We found that air pollution levels in Nairobi increased by 182% over the study period, Kampala by 162% and Addis Ababa by 62%.
Street life, Addis Ababa.
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Development should not be pursued at the expense of the very people who helped to create value and meaning in the city.
The port of Mombasa in Kenya, which was the first country, with Ghana, to ratify the African Continental Free Trade Agreement in 2018.
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Africa’s new continental free trade area, the AfCFTA, is a remarkable achievement. However, decisive diplomatic, technical and social action is needed for it to succeed.
Elections, and observer processes are a big priority in Africa.
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Surveys shows that the majority of Africans prefer democracy, despite its flaws, to the alternatives.
People feel a real sense of community in slums like Kibera in Nairobi.
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Moving people without taking their social and economic concerns into consideration isn’t the way to deal with urban slums.
Street-connected children use begging as a livelihood strategy.
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As Addis Ababa develops into a modern city, beggars are increasingly being treated like public nuisances and criminals.
The Hulene landfill in Maputo, Mozambique.
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Recent urban disasters in Ethiopia and Mozambique resulted in high female mortality, which was been largely ignored.
Erta Ale in eastern Ethiopia.
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Satellite research in Ethiopia is opening up a new frontier in the hunt for geothermal power.
The Oluwole Urban Market near Marina in Lagos. Being middle class is more than just being a consumer.
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Scholars have started to investigate what it really means to be middle class in Africa.