My recent appearance on Al Jazeera’s Head to Head with Mehdi Hasan triggered a storm in Ethiopia – and among the many non-Ethiopians who have made a habit of lecturing Ethiopians about Ethiopia. Some ...

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The silencing of the guns in Tigray, a northern region of Ethiopia in which hundreds of thousands of people may have died in a brutal civil war between 2020 and 2022, was a rare example of peacemaking ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr Ewelina U Ochab is a Forbes contributor, lawyer, and author. Nov 09, 2025, 04:10pm EST Nov 09, 2025, 04:11pm EST A woman poses ...

“When the enemy entered, we fled. Those who escaped, escaped; those who died, died. We walked over corpses. We were lucky to escape.” Shushay and her six children were among the three million people ...

Tewolde has fought multiple times for Eritrea, one of the most closed societies on Earth, and is now praying another war is not about to break out with neighbouring Ethiopia. "If the war starts, many ...

Three years ago one of the deadliest conflicts of the 21st century ended when Ethiopia’s government struck a peace deal with the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), the ruling party of the ...

“When the enemy entered, we fled. Those who escaped, escaped; those who died, died. We walked over corpses. We were lucky to escape.” Shushay and her six children were among the three million people ...

Famine – the extreme scarcity of food – devastated Ethiopia’s Tigray region during and after a two-year war that began in November 2020. Yet, the famine’s impact is one of the least documented crises ...

An Ethopian fighter across the border with Eritrea in Humera in 2020 - Copyright AFP/File EDUARDO SOTERAS Tewolde has fought multiple times for Eritrea, one of the ...