A woman holds the flags of the African Union and Ethiopia during celebrations to mark the Ethiopian New Year
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Amid New Year celebrations in Ethiopia, questions still linger around the possibility for sustained peace and stability.
Ethiopia’s national carrier is a key link between China and Africa.
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The aviation ambitions of several African countries are linked to Chinese investment.
Women fetching water from a borehole drilled by an aid foundation in Babile, Ethiopia.
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Parts of Ethiopia will likely be hotter, drier, and more water stressed - with consequences for human and economic development.
Trachoma can lead to blindness if left untreated.
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Trachoma is the leading cause of preventable blindness.
A woman shelters in a church in the Central African Republic after deadly 2014 attacks involving Muslim and Christian fighters.
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Bad governance and political manoeuvring increase the risk of communal conflicts
The government of President Idriss Deby in Chad blocked citizens’ internet access for 16 months.
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Social media is shaping Africa’s political engagement in diverse and complex ways.
Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s notion of “medemer” could have united Ethiopians, but seems to have failed.
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Politicians, activists and media outlets continue to deconstruct old narratives and perpetuate new grievances. Nobody, however, is as busy reconstructing a new, inclusive story.
The thread that holds Ethiopia together could be unravelling.
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Calls for secession in Ethiopia could destabilise the entire nation.
Young men in the traditional attire of southern Ethiopia’s Sidama people.
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The already extremely fragile political condition cannot handle any further instability and chaos.
An Eritrean migrant leaves a detention facility near Nitzana in the Negev Desert in Israel, near border with Egypt.
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The flow of unaccompanied minors from Eritrea has become the subject of international concern.
Parliament House of Ghana.
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Ghana is taking advantage of its strategic location in Africa
Digitisation includes the delivery of agronomic advice and information via text messaging and interactive voice response.
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There have been some positive strides made in getting smallholders involved in digital agriculture in Africa
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 displaced populations within Ethiopia could destabilise the entire country.
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Ethiopia’s internally displaced populations are a stain on Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s first term in office.
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed in China in April. His country has been shaken by a coup attempt in its Amhara region.
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Ethiopia’s regional governance system is doing more harm than good.
Most food systems in Africa are informal and unregulated
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Food safety studies in Ethiopia reveal that unlocking consumer demand for safe food is critical to stopping the millions of deaths and illnesses from foodborne pathogens across the continent.
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In Ethiopia, boys are more likely to go to school than girls are. Role models can change this.
Oromo children saved from slavery.
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Book adds a great deal to our understanding of how children were ensnared into the Indian Ocean slave trade.
Sudanese protesters outside of the military headquarters in Khartoum.
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People in Sudan are determined to provide a new political path and need to guide candidates who want to lead the country.
Speaker of Rwanda’s Chamber of Deputies Donatille Mukabalisa on international women’s day. Rwanda is a trend-setter in female representation.
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In many African states power is concentrated in the executive branch. That’s why women’s representation in cabinet matters.