Abdulhakim Shamsuddin was 14 and in high school in the city of Dire Dawa when he first heard that he could contribute to the building of a dam on the Blue Nile. The Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, ...

US President Donald Trump’s recent offer to revive US mediation between Egypt and Ethiopia over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) has once again spotlighted the protracted and often ...

Nibret Gelese spent years saving up to move from his home town Mekele, in the north of Ethiopia, and make a newlife in Addis Ababa. “Everyone said it was the place to be, the place to get rich,” he ...

Oil and gas players who are already active or looking to break into Ethiopia will be keeping a close eye on developments after Prime Minister Meles Zenawi died suddenly on Monday. The country, a ...

Meles Zenawi always said he didn’t intend to die in office. Speaking to TIME as long ago as 2007, the Ethiopian Prime Minister was talking about moving on: “I have been around for quite a long time,” ...

Ethiopian prime minister Meles Zenawi dies of an undisclosed illness; his leadership changed Ethiopia's economy to one of rapid growth and less... Ethiopia's longtime ruler, prime minister Meles ...