DARK SECRETS: 16 - The Real Truth

Ethiopia introduces new tax to fill gap after USAID funding pause

Ethiopia’s parliament is introducing a new tax for all workers as part of measures to fill the financial gap left by the USAID funding pause

The Independent UK · Mar 20, 2025

Coffee rituals and sacred sites: How to spend 72 hours in Ethiopia

The East African nation offers both city adventures and ancient wonders

The Independent UK · Mar 20, 2025

In South Africa, Russia’s ‘anti-colonial’ narrative sways public opinion

Sympathy towards wartime Russia has deep historical roots, back to the Cold War era and earlier.

Al Jazeera · Mar 19, 2025

Ethiopia's Tigray regional government appeals for help after factional fighters seize key towns

The interim government of Ethiopia’s Tigray region has appealed for the Ethiopian federal government to intervene after a faction of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front seized control of two major towns, leaving several people wounded and raising fears of a return to civil war

The Independent UK · Mar 13, 2025

'We will just die in silence': US aid cuts hit Ethiopia's fragile Tigray region

Aid agencies distributing U.S. food aid in Ethiopia's war-affected Tigray region say they have had to stop feeding millions of people because of the Trump administration's restrictions on foreign aid

The Independent UK · Mar 13, 2025

Devastated family speaks out after 12-year-old girl is killed by a runaway car outside her school

Arsema Mekonnen’s parents said they moved to the United States from Ethiopia to provide a better life for their daughter

The Independent UK · Mar 12, 2025

‘We just want peace’: A pacifist community amid Ethiopia’s Amhara conflict

For two years, Awra Amba has been caught up in a war raging between Fano fighters and Ethiopian government soldiers.

Al Jazeera · Mar 10, 2025

Why does Ethiopia have earthquakes and volcanoes? A geologist explains

A swarm of earth tremors and fears of volcanic eruptions in January forced tens of thousands of people to move away from Awash Fentale, an area in the Afar region of Ethiopia. The area falls within a geologically active region of the Great Rift Valley that has experienced a number…

The Conversation · Mar 6, 2025

Saudi border forces accused of killing ‘hundreds of Ethiopian migrants’

Witnesses making the crossing from Yemen report coming under machine-gun fire and seeing rotting bodies

The Guardian - UK · Feb 28, 2025

‘The impact has been devastating’: how USAid freeze sent shockwaves through Ethiopia

Ethiopia was the largest recipient of US aid assistance in sub-Saharan Africa before Donald Trump froze funding last month. From food and health to support for refugees and sexual abuse survivors, we examine the impact of a decision that has left aid organisations scrambling

The Guardian - UK · Feb 21, 2025